An Obadiah Slope column Obadiah finds reading letters to the editor more misses than hits, but thought this was a great letter to the NY Times that did not waste a single word. “I do not agree with a lot of Charlie… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall Last decade, while on LSL in France, I noticed something (as well as the predominance of disabled people, dog poo smack bang in the middle of footpaths, thousands of people smoking, and couples snogging everywhere). It was the… Continue Reading
Brandon Porter via Baptist Press and Religion Unplugged Conservative advocate Charlie Kirk was killed by a gunman at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, President Donald Trump paid tribute to the leader via social media calling him great and legendary. Kirk… Continue Reading
Gail Orchard, an Anglican Deacon in the Diocese of Newcastle, has won a three-year battle in the church’s legal structures, overturning a charge of “conduct that is a habitual and wilful neglect of ministerial duty.” A finding by the Anglican… Continue Reading
A survey of Canberra-Goulburn synod members shows “59% are unable to affirm the statement that our ‘current suite of safe ministrypolicies and practices are effective at keeping our communities safe.’”according to an interim report of the diocese’s Safe Ministries Working Group (SMWG). “For clergy, this figure… Continue Reading
The closure of church buildings and vaccine mandates that were endorsed by the leaders of the Sydney Anglican Diocese have been upheld in a report from the Diocese’s Standing Committee prepared for this month’s Synod (Church Parliament). Referring to a… Continue Reading
Last Sunday lunchtime, Obadiah did his best to avoid any of the three marches (anti-immigration, pro-Palestine and anti-anti-immigration) that filled various streets in Sydney. Instead of protesting, he was on an errand to retrieve his lost mobile phone, which Find… Continue Reading
“The Clapham sect were heroes to me, but now I am not sure” was a comment to me at the lunch break during a Moore College Library event featuring papers on how the influential group of British Christians influenced Sydney’s… Continue Reading
The 2025 Tinsley Lecture, presented by Morling College, began with a quiz. “I’m going to ask you who this group is. I want you to try and guess. They’re spiritually open. They’re suspicious of institutional Christianity. They’re a growing subset… Continue Reading
The ABC opens voting for the top books of the 21st Century: who will you vote for Voting for the ABC’s top 100 books of this century opened today. Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead (2004) and Tom Holland’s Dominion (2019) are already… Continue Reading