Morning Star News SURABAYA, Indonesia: Muslims in Indonesia on Sunday (December 8) prevented Christians from holding a Christmas service at a pastor’s home, sources said. At the Cipta Graha Permai housing complex on Tegar Beriman street in Cibinong, West Java Province, Muslim… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on making church music work for an audience of professional entertainers in a church plant – and how he was lucky to avoid an accident. Sometimes we’d have four songs in church, other times two, or three, or… Continue Reading
Clemente Lisi of Religion Unplugged At least two people were killed and six others injured in a shooting Monday morning at a private Christian school in Wisconsin, authorities said. The shooter, who has not been identified, was also found dead.… Continue Reading
Philip and Deanne Gerber are “not really camper/caravan people,” but have come up with an adventurous idea in retirement. They will be grey nomads of a different, not-so-nomadic sort. Instead of touring, they are heading out from Sydney to spend… Continue Reading
Ben Boland on the scourge of elder abuse The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the global Anglican communion, for not reporting abuse within the church continues a terrible pattern. Yet again Jesus love has been overshadowed by… Continue Reading
One case study in the guide to the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act (CSP Act), devised by the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) for the Baptist Union of Victoria (BUV), is especially troubling to this… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Thanks: After three weeks of jury service, Obadiah is back to what passes as normal. Thank you to the writers The Other Cheek has featured over the last little while. ### Thanks again: it turns out… Continue Reading
Gay and Lesbian advocates sometimes talk about the Bible’s six ”clobber” verses. But the word “clobber” got another workout this week in the defamation loss suffered by Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto. Pesutto was found to have defamed crossbencher MP… Continue Reading
The origins of “Providing safety for LGBTQA People of Faith“, a guide for Baptists to the 2022 Victorian Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act has now been detailed to The Other Cheek by a spokesperson for the Baptist Union… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall explains why setting up a mission to entertainers, called ENTER, also meant setting up a church in the local school. Our most important strategy to drive and support the mission was to plant ENTER and its church in… Continue Reading