As a viral video of women from the Christian Kuki tribe in northeast India being paraded naked in public, groped, gang-raped by Hindu men draws attention, this article from Religion Unplugged examines the evidence for persecution of Christians. The video… Continue Reading
A discussion of how NSW/ACT Baptists can enforce a policy against same-gender marriage and gay and lesbian ministers rumbles on online. The Baptists adopted a “position statement” against “sexual intimacy outside” a “lifelong faithful union of one man and one… Continue Reading
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Sunday (July 16) killed six Christians in Benue state, Nigeria, the latest of 37 Christians slain in the past three weeks in the state, sources said. The assailants arrived on… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column ### No comment needed ### Baring with Gafcon: “Is this too risqué for Gafcon?” asked one social media commenter. The ad for a Galfcon (Global Anglican Futures Conference ) meeting in Australia was the object of… Continue Reading
The NSW Presbyterian General Assembly was all set to discuss “Healthy Complementarianism” at its meeting last weekend at the Presbyterian Ladies College Croydon, but a phone call the night before shut the discussion down. A lengthy consultation process in the… Continue Reading
Actor and author Anna McGahan has won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Vogel for 2023, for a novel. What has that to do with Christianity? Her prizewinning novel, Immaculate, is set in Brisbane, dealing with a young woman’s experience… Continue Reading
Guest Opinion by Lance Lawton Climate change, pandemic management, government regulation, Robodebt, the Voice referendum. All it seems are in dispute. Among the common threads is the all-important truth question. Someone’s lying. The question is who. How is any mug… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Setting the Bible Free: Obadiah still gets asked about how to get permission to use a slab of the Bible in print, maybe for a church handout or a book. Most English bible versions let you… Continue Reading
Anglican ministers and Catholic Priests have NOT been historically regarded as “employees” of their churches. Now Uniting Church ministers have been found to fall into the same group – people who have a “spiritual covenant” or hold “office” in a… Continue Reading
One of the three authors of a new book, The Gender Revolution, Presbyterian Minister Kamal Weerakoon, was asked at the book launch why write a book on transgender, a difficult, complicated subject. Kamal Weerakoon replied that for all three of… Continue Reading