From the Two Pennies Facebookers He was supposed to be a caretaker pope. A placeholder. The cardinals thought he had a year or two in him at most. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was born in 1881 in a village near Bergamo,… Continue Reading
Filming of scenes for a controversial online show ‘Turned On: Dirty, Sexy Money’ at Brisbane’s Anglican Cathedral has drawn a shocked reaction after Collective Shout campaigner Melinda Tankard Reist posted about it. Making the point that the series is “part… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall Many years ago my young family and I had a farm stay holiday on Hugh Fraser’s Mohair Goat farm near Inverell. Hugh and his wife were lovely, and he kindly gifted me with a high quality Leatherman in… Continue Reading
Aaron Earls of Lifeway Research via Religion Unplugged In 1455, Johannes Gutenberg printed around 180 copies of the Bible, the first book to come from his movable type printing press. Last year, 570 years after Gutenberg, more than 19.1 million… Continue Reading
The Anglican Church of Australia is tilting further and further towards evangelicalism, an analysis of the election results from the General Synod (national church parliament) shows. This is seen clearly in the election of members to the Standing Committee of… Continue Reading
For a moment this writer felt that he was back in a Moore Theological College lecture theatre asCollege principal Mark Thompson got up at General Synod (the Anglican Church’s national parliament) to introduce a motion affirming “the biblical and apostolic… Continue Reading
The Anglican General Synod (the Church Parliament) has passed a strongly worded motion, without any opposing vote, urging the Federal government to go all the way and implement all the reforms that Peta Murphy, the late member for Dunkley, campaigned… Continue Reading
Archbishop Ric Thorpe of Melbourne used his first-ever speech at General Synod (the Anglican Church’s national parliament) to endorse an ambitious goal of a million church plants by 2036 that was presented at the Anglican Consultative Council last month. His… Continue Reading
A fiery debate at Anglican General Synod over funding the Family and Culture Commission resulted in a no vote that declined to fund the program, which campaigns against Domestic and Family Violence, with $189,000 for 2027, with CPI increases for… Continue Reading
What happens when a diocese (church region) is not viable? The Australian Anglican General Synod meeting in Melbourne has spent several sessions seeking a solution.The long-running and vexed issue of some rural and regional dioceses (regions) of the Anglican Church… Continue Reading