This is a prayer from Archbishop KanishkaRaffel for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – Monday 25th November 2024 Loving God, creator and sustainer of all, you created humankind in your image, female and male you created… Continue Reading
The Makin report into the abuse carried out by John Smyth QC (pictured) against young men in the conservative evangelical Iwerne camps in the UK, and in Zimbabwe and South Africa reveals a decades-long cover-up carried out by evangelicals. Here… Continue Reading
Tony Campolo (1935-2024), author, evangelist, academic and leader of the Red Letter Christians, has departed for heaven but left behind many quotable quotes. “I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000… Continue Reading
Here are two recent comments from Aussie Presbyterians – from a church which has only male ministers, and in VIctoria and Queensland, only male elders. A move to have only male members in NSW is in limbo as their Assembly… Continue Reading
Richard Ostling via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) Turnout! Due to the stay-at-home factor, Democratic votes for president fell by some nine million from 2020, causing political scientist James Galbraith to say the party had committed “suicide.” Kamala Harris and the Democrats… Continue Reading
OBITUARY William Lawrence “Laurie” MacIntosh (1937-2024) dairyman, pastor and leader of the Cornerstone Community, a christian training insitute which he dounded at Pera Bore 20km west of Bourke. For 30 years Laurie Macintosh led the Cornerstone community, which planted self… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on starting a niche ministry – not the easiest thing to do. He takes us behind the scenes of founding the Entertainment Bible Ministry (ENTER); starting with another niche ministry that gave him a leg up. Vignette- Christians… Continue Reading
Sunday Bloody Sunday: To the Sydney Opera House’s Bowels (the drama theatre) to watch a very Melbourne play, Sunday. An artistic muse and social radical from the heart of the Melbourne establismnet Sunday Reed have always been a figure on… Continue Reading
Pentecostalism, now the second-largest Christian movement by attendance in Australia, owes its birth to women ministers. Barry Chant, a great historian of Australian Pentecostalism, points out one great distinctive in his Phd thesis: “Of the eighteen Pentecostal churches founded in… Continue Reading
In October the Egyptian government has legalised 293 church buildings, bringing the total of legalised churches to 3,453 according to a government committee set up to oversee a process of giving churches legal protection. The committee is chaired by Prime… Continue Reading