Gao Zhensai of China Aid via Religion Unplugged Nine members of Beijing’s Zion Church have been released on bail after more than eight months in detention, while nine remaining church leaders now face more serious criminal charges in one of… Continue Reading
Decades later, I still mourn the kids i was in Sunday school with, who faded out from church when they started high school or a little later. i still remember names and faces. Attending a Youthworks College “Theology thinktank” this… Continue Reading
Court documents lodged by the Anglican Diocese of North Queensland’s recievers, SV partners, in the Queensland Supreme Court, seek authority to sell twenty-two churches, plus one instance of vacant land. The church sales have been triggered by a large redress… Continue Reading
In the lead-up to the 250th anniversary of the USA (semiquincentennial), Peter Bentley provides a selection of articles from his series looking at the USA through American film and television. Note: at present this article is part of a collection, hopefully… Continue Reading
Melbourne’s Anglican Archbishop Ric Thorpe challenged his flock to grow thousands of leaders to grow the church in an address at Ridley College this month. The Archbishop’s 2026 Anglican Institute Lecture on Discernment and Partnerships: Renewal for the Diocese of Melbourne highlighted… Continue Reading
Realcommercial.com.au has described as a ‘vast portfolio’ a list of properties the North Queensland Anglican Diocese is selling to fund payments to survivors of abuse under the Federal redress scheme and to resize the church’s footprint. “Colliers Townsville is handling… Continue Reading
In Sydney, which wears the crown of Australia’s most fractious city, Christian leaders and lay, Orthodox to Pentecostal, Uniting to Anglican, came together in two sold-out concerts in the Opera House last weekend. Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan premiered the… Continue Reading
In the lead-up to the 250th anniversary of the USA (semiquincentennial), Peter Bentley provides a selection of articles from his series looking at the USA through American film and television. On my first trip overseas many years ago (to Asia),… Continue Reading
A bill to ban abortions after 25 weeks, except when necessary to save the life of the mother or in cases of serious fetal abnormalities, passed the SA Legislative Council 10 votes to 9, but lost in the SA lower… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Good job: A headline, “Bishops welcome minimum wage increase,” is on the Catholic Weekly site. Would one find it on an Anglican site? If not, why not, Obadiah asks. The Catholic Weekly story reveals that, acting… Continue Reading