The role of Christians in public debate is being cemented in the NSW election due on March 25. Anti-gambling Christians are at the centre of the hottest issue in the NSW election campaign: gambling reform. Premier Dominic Perrotet took the… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column 50 shades of they: The chief sub-editor is the person who rules on grammar in a newspaper. The Sydney Morning Herald’s chief sub, Michael Ruffles, has written “Mansplaining pronouns for obstinate blokes,” which is alive-and-let-livee argument.… Continue Reading
By Richard Ostling, a regular at Get Religion which critiques media coverage of Christianity. The 2022 report from the Open Doors organization says “persecution of Christians has reached the highest levels” since it began accumulating data for its annual “World… Continue Reading
How would you describe Christianity if you had a few minutes? Phoenix-like, Dan Paterson, a former speaker for the RZIM ministry, launched Questioning Christianity, which does what it is named for – seek out people’s questions. Dan’s latest video four-minute… Continue Reading
A guest column by Ek Liljgren from Chinchilla, Queensland “Do not judge,” right, that is what I hear often. This is one of the most quotable and yet misquoted parts of Scripture The Bible does not say, “Do not judge”… Continue Reading
George Pell was not present for the final stage in his legal saga, which saw his conviction for child sexual about overturned in a seven to zero result at the High Court. It was late on the morning of the… Continue Reading
Cairns is the location of the third local church in the new “Diocese of the Southern Cross,” formed by the conservative Anglican Network Gafcon (Global Anglican Futures Conference). Trevor Saggers, minister at Good Shepherd Church in Cairns, has left that… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column. Obadiah grew up suspicious of culture. We were not a big movie-going family, for example. And television only crept into the household after an older brother bought his own TV. Until then, it was half an… Continue Reading
A review of The Manual: Getting Masculinity Right The Manual, by Al Stewart is a handbook on how to be a Christian man. It is also a brave book not dodging the question of “what is a man”. Not all… Continue Reading
History Makers: Devotions, Downloads & Dad Jokes Pastor Matt Prater runs a radio show called History Makers but it turns out this book is only connected to the show by the author and his faith. because this book is mostly… Continue Reading