Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. You may be a fan of these international days, or you may not be, but let’s use this day to think about church, Christians and disability. I am a very different… Continue Reading
Herschel Walker, the football star turned Trump-endorsed candidate for the US Senate is running as a self-confessed born-again Christian. Whether the conservative Republican Party takes back the senate in November may turn on whether Walker defeats the democrat, Raphael Warnock… Continue Reading
Opinion by Lance Lawton Romans 7:15-8:3, NIV 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do,… Continue Reading
Let’s tune in to a corner of the internet, which I usually try to ignore. “I’m furious at Andrew Thorburn,” writes the very conservative Bernard Gaynor. There’s two of him – father and son, both extremely outspoken. This is BG… Continue Reading
Nils von Kalm writes on how the Indigenous Hawthorn AFL players and their partners who have made allegations of mistreatment expose a rotten culture in Australian society Apart from the incomprehensible ugliness of the racism allegations that we’ve seen this… Continue Reading
Conservative Christianity is unpopular says Martyn Percy. He’s right, but Jesus predicted unpopularity, didn’t he? Martyn Percy was responding on Thinking Anglicans to my piece “Martyn Percy takes on Sydney Anglicanism” https://theothercheek.com.au/martyn-percy-takes-on-sydney-anglicanism/ My further response is below. Martyn Percy in… Continue Reading
Paul Clark on being an evangelical who wants to stay IN the Uniting Church. Not a year seems to go by without the Uniting Church becoming the punching bag of conservatives for seemingly weird or heretical positions taken on an… Continue Reading
Martyn Percy, eminent English Academic and until recently Dean of Christ Church, Oxford has written a severe profile of Sydney Anglicanism. “In terms of character, the muscular, masculine Victorian- Edwardian Christianity comes through at every level, Percy writes of Sydney… Continue Reading
Anti-war Christian Activist Margie Pestorius explains why she will protest at the upcoming “Land Forces” weapons expo in Brisbane. From the 4th- the 6th of October this year the Brisbane Exhibition Centre will host the Land Forces weapons exhibition. Not… Continue Reading
A sweet memory from Stu Cameron, CEO and Superintendent of Wesley Mission, Sydney A friend emailed me this photo a couple of days ago. It’s a picture of a fibro house located in Munda in the Western Province of the… Continue Reading