Christian identity crisis #157
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
Umbrella body for Bible colleges becomes a University College
Sydney Missionary and Bible College, Ridley Melbourne, Melbourne School of Theology, Brisbane School of Theology, the Bible College of SA and other theological colleges are now part of Australia’s newest University College. The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA)… Continue Reading
What we don’t need now, is angry Christians
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
City on a Hill’s Guy Mason in a no-holds-barred interview, Freedom for Faith calls for a Religious Freedom Act
Senior pastor Guy Mason flew to Sydney to be interviewed by Channel Seven’s David Koch on Sunrise. Freedom For Faith has also come out in support of Thorburn, calling for a Religious Freedom Act and “Law and Religion’s Neil Foster… Continue Reading
Thorburn and turning the other cheek
What if Andrew Thorburn is right? Just suppose Andrew Thorburn, forced to choose between his church and his short-lived position of CEO of the Essendon Football Club was right when he said “The media and leaders of our community …… Continue Reading
The Perils of journalism (Christian style), and the Phantom of the Opera and coercive control
An Obadiah Slope Column Lefty Christians: Clive Hamilton founder of the left think tank The Australia Institute only realised that several of its early board members were Christians, “it was only writing the memoir that II looked back and thought… Continue Reading
City on a Hill’s Andrew Thorburn forced out of Essendon FC job
The chair of City on a Hill, an evangelical church based in Melbourne, but with branches in Geelong, NSW and Queensland, has been forced to resign as CEO of the Essendon AFL club, one day after taking up the job.… Continue Reading
The dream of a giant cross in the outback comes to completion.
Australia’s “big things” (the giant banana in Coffs Harbour NSW or The Big Lobster in Kingston SE, SA are tourism boosters. But the newest one has a different purpose. The Cross on Memory Mountain, is big, 20m high, and will… Continue Reading
Free speech lawyers that protect Christians
When Katrina, a photographer from Brisbane, posted on Facebook that she did not think drag queens are good role models for children, following publicity about a Brisbane city library drag queen story time event, she did not expect to be… Continue Reading
Queensland’s Presbyterian College, making an offer for their own building, in receiver sale.
Queensland Theological College (QTC) has been fundraising to save their building in inner Brisbane. QTC tells The Other Cheek they are now in a position to make an offer to the receivers who are selling their building. The collapse of… Continue Reading