Will Graham is on a mission – the same mission as his grandfather Billy, of proclaiming the Gospel. And like Billy he’s beena visitor preacher to downunder but out of the headlines in smaller towns. But this year he’s heading… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column In a famous essay, ‘Such such were the Joys’ about the terrible boarding school he was sent to as an eight-year-old, George Orwell makes this statement about two contrasting aims of the school. “Broadly you were… Continue Reading
Matthew Ventura writes on dignity and respect for LGBTQIA people. This week I’ve been thinking about how there’s so much more space for middle ground than we sometimes acknowledge. I don’t mean to say that being in the centre or… Continue Reading
New York Times columnist David French has been canceled by the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), a denomination rather like our own PCA, the Presbyterian Church of Australia. A seminar featuring French has been dropped from their PCA General assembly,… Continue Reading
Travelling North from Sydney towards Queensland, the Inland route by train or car takes you through Armidale, seat of the evangelical diocese of the same name, and the coastal route takes you through Grafton, the cathedral city of a progressive… Continue Reading
The Health Ministry in Gaza is claiming 35,091 people have been killed in the territory during more than seven months of war between Israel and Hamas as of May 13. The Health Ministry is run by Hamas, which is listed… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on Sexual Energy A great one who trained my (all-male) cohort in ministry once said a sage thing to us: “Never stop making love with your wife, even as you age. It’ll have a disproportionately positive effect on… Continue Reading
This is not likely to be reported, Simon Gillham, Vice Principal of Moore College said during a talk he gave at the college’s open night last week. “I can see a few people with cameras around the newspapers haven’t got… Continue Reading
Richard Ostling via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) Making history last week, delegates at a United Methodist Church General Conference in Charlotte agreed to allow same-sex clergy and marriages. Each UMC conference the past 52 years had upheld centuries-old heterosexual restrictions, most… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Let’s hear it for evensong: It was a busy evening – evensong for ascension day in the cathedral, then onto a play – that turned out to be a study of contrast.At Evensong, we prayed for a… Continue Reading