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Is this a cultural moment as millions (maybe) hear the gospel

Posted on 14/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Joe Rogan with papyrus

The Not the Bee website – the serious partner to the satirical “Babylon Bee” – conveys the news Joe Rogan’s 14m listeners have been given a serious Christian apologetic from Wes Huff, a speaker from Apologetics Canada and a PhD student at the evangelical… Continue Reading →

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One of Jesus’ ‘Little Ones’

Posted on 13/01/2025 by Charles Brammall

James Oswald (Jimmy) Little was a keen and committed Christian and Yorta Yorta man. He was born in 1937 on the Cummeragunga settlement (called a “mission”, although technically it wasn’t one) near Echuca, on the New South Wales side of… Continue Reading →

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This Sunday is Aboriginal Sunday 2025

Posted on 13/01/2025 by John Sandeman
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Each year, Aboriginal Sunday is held on the Sunday before January 26, continuing the observance Christian Aboriginal leader William Cooper began in 1938, along with a Day of Mourning gathering he led 150 years after white settlement or invasion began… Continue Reading →

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Saved By Good Works.

Posted on 12/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Talking under a tree

A dear friend of mine (now Senior Minister of a church in Sydney) had been a regular churchgoer at a good church, 2-3 times a week since he was in utero (and now he’s about 6’4”!). Many years ago, we… Continue Reading →

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Why the period drama film ‘The Brutalist’ resonated so deeply with me

Posted on 12/01/2025 by John Sandeman
The Brutalist

Daniel Libeskind, the architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, reviews The Brutalist, for The Forward, New York via Religion Unplugged (OPINION) It is seldom that one enters a film that resonates with one’s own life. For me, “The Brutalist”… Continue Reading →

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Best of the Cheeks: Hope for Anglicans (and everyone else) and help for those of us nervous to talk about Jesus

Posted on 11/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Hop[e 25 logo

What does it look like for a wide range of Christians to be “sharing hope in Jesus”? Australia is about to find out. Between Easter Sunday (April 20) and Pentecost (June 8, 2025) the Anglican Church “each parish to commit… Continue Reading →

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On Religion: Carter’s piety and politics changed the role of evangelicals in public life

Posted on 11/01/2025 by John Sandeman

Terry Mattingly via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) The young Jimmy Carter was a political nobody the first time he ran for governor of Georgia. That long-shot 1966 effort failed, leaving him wrestling with doubts about his future and his faith. But… Continue Reading →

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Jesus and the Man in Black

Posted on 10/01/2025 by Charles Brammall
Johnny Cash 1970

Johnny Cash:  “Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.” “Why me, Lord? What have I ever done to deserve even one of the blessings I’ve known? Why me, Lord? What did I ever… Continue Reading →

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Racism and maybe not racism: Visas and grooming gangs.

Posted on 09/01/2025 by John Sandeman

An Obadiah Slope Column Racism at the G: (you might need to wait for the video) Obadiah thinks there is only one response: this is racist. And, besides too much beer, the only reaction can be that these white men… Continue Reading →

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Best of the Cheeks: When 21-year-old Terrence became a Christian, he could hardly read. Now he is a Bible College student

Posted on 09/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Speaker 1 (09:23): Are you enjoying college?

Terrence Lennon Wingfield, an indigenous man, struggled through school on the West Coast of SA, but came to Adelaide and found Jesus at the age of 21. He went to TAFE to learn to read and now is an enthusiastic… Continue Reading →

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