As the Koorong bookstore chain enters a third life, after growth across Australia under its founding family ownership with the Bootes family, then a period in the Bible Society, and since March this year, Excelsia College, the chain is changing… Continue Reading
Terry Mattingly via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) In Western Christian churches, the highest holy day on the liturgical calendar is Easter — the Solemnity of the Resurrection of the Lord. A year ago, King Charles III, in an Easter message that… Continue Reading
Geoff Folland I don’t sit on the board of a Bible college. Nor do I want to. But I’ve been close enough to the system over a long period to notice a shift. And I can read a set of… Continue Reading
Australian Christian nationalists are here, but different from the American variety was one finding of “Christian Nationalism and the Australian Church,” a webinar hosted by the University of Divinity. The helpful discussion was hosted by Prof Glen O’Brien of Eva… Continue Reading
Mapping the Operating Systems of Australian Christian Higher EducationSeries: The Future of Formation (Part 1 of 4)By Geoff Folland I took my first Bible college class in 1992, during my first year working as an auditor with aBig 4 firm.… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall In 1994, in a small Rwandan town, a lady called Immaculée Ilibagiza hid in a 3 x 4 foot bathroom in a pastor’s house with seven other women, for 91 days, during the Genocide. Outside, neighbours, and people she had grown up… Continue Reading
A Finnish study following up the cohort of transgender referred adolescents between 1996 and 2019, against matched controls, “showed significantly higher psychiatric morbidity.” The study “Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland… Continue Reading
Geoff Folland In the first article, I argued that Australia’s most effective outreach was never really about the stadium. In the second, I suggested that campaigns still matter — not because they replace relationships, but because they activate them. That… Continue Reading
Geoff Folland In the first article, I argued that Australia’s most effective outreach was never really about the stadium. The stadium functioned as a signal. The real work happened locally. That raises a reasonable leadership question: If evangelism is fundamentally… Continue Reading
Geoff Folland Australia’s most famous evangelistic moments didn’t succeed because of the stadium. We tend to remember the crowds — the SCG, the MCG, packed halls, the sense of momentum. We remember moments when Christianity felt visible, confident, and shared.… Continue Reading