Arthur Owen Blessitt (1940–2025) Arthur Blessitt, who started carrying his (literal) cross around the world in 1968, has come to the end of his life’s journey. His cross was 3.6 metres of 100m square timber – with a wheel at… Continue Reading
The stand-out fact from The State of the Great Commission report from the evangelical Lausanne Movement is the exponential growth of Christianity in the two-thirds world. It rivals the stories of the early church: “Christian communities that had been planted in Asia, Africa,… Continue Reading
The Not the Bee website – the serious partner to the satirical “Babylon Bee” – conveys the news Joe Rogan’s 14m listeners have been given a serious Christian apologetic from Wes Huff, a speaker from Apologetics Canada and a PhD student at the evangelical… Continue Reading
James Oswald (Jimmy) Little was a keen and committed Christian and Yorta Yorta man. He was born in 1937 on the Cummeragunga settlement (called a “mission”, although technically it wasn’t one) near Echuca, on the New South Wales side of… Continue Reading
Each year, Aboriginal Sunday is held on the Sunday before January 26, continuing the observance Christian Aboriginal leader William Cooper began in 1938, along with a Day of Mourning gathering he led 150 years after white settlement or invasion began… Continue Reading
A dear friend of mine (now Senior Minister of a church in Sydney) had been a regular churchgoer at a good church, 2-3 times a week since he was in utero (and now he’s about 6’4”!). Many years ago, we… Continue Reading
Daniel Libeskind, the architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, reviews The Brutalist, for The Forward, New York via Religion Unplugged (OPINION) It is seldom that one enters a film that resonates with one’s own life. For me, “The Brutalist”… Continue Reading
Terry Mattingly via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) The young Jimmy Carter was a political nobody the first time he ran for governor of Georgia. That long-shot 1966 effort failed, leaving him wrestling with doubts about his future and his faith. But… Continue Reading
Johnny Cash: “Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.” “Why me, Lord? What have I ever done to deserve even one of the blessings I’ve known? Why me, Lord? What did I ever… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Racism at the G: (you might need to wait for the video) Obadiah thinks there is only one response: this is racist. And, besides too much beer, the only reaction can be that these white men… Continue Reading