Did the Royal Commision into the Institutional Response to the Sexual Abuse of Children, and the postal survey about same sex marriage affect the downturn in Sydney Anglican attendance mapped out in a report cureently the subject of debate in the… Continue Reading
Dominic Steele, Senior Minister at inner-city Annandale, delivered a no-holds-barred speech calling on Anglicans to respond to the fewer people in their churches. In a statistic-laden speech, Steele introduced a frank and detailed report on attendance patterns to the Sydney… Continue Reading
The very end of Sydney’s shiny new Metro line is Tallawong station, a place destined to be a high-rise-only suburb. The sort of “Transport Oriented Development” (TOD) that strikes fear into the heart of inner city NIMBYs is here at… Continue Reading
Senior Minister of Jamberoo Jodie McNeil has been named to a key role in the conservative Anglican movement, Gafcon (Global Anglican Futures conference). Here is the announcement by Paul Donison the Gafcon General Secretary and a Texas-based senior minister who… Continue Reading
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
Australia and Tanzania, on opposite sides of the Indian Ocean, form a good test case (with a positive result) of whether Christianity is of earthy use. An Anglican Aid seminar asking, “Is education God’s answer to world poverty?” revealed the… Continue Reading
An excerpt from Mastered by the Word: A step-by-step guide to understanding and applying the Bible by. Craig Hamilton, which as the title says, is a guide to reading the Bible in everyday language. Reading the Bible is a huge… Continue Reading
The Jerusalem church leaders have issued a new call for “the urgent need to conclude the present war, to turn from the pursuit of death and destruction towards the promotion of life and peace.” The statement clearly avoids the sort… Continue Reading
New rules restricting the use of Non-disclosure Agreements (NDAs) have been recommended to the Sydney Anglican Synod (church parliament), which meets later this month. The proposals seek to limit the use of NDAs except in some very limited situations. Uphold,… Continue Reading
Sydney’s Anglican Synod will be asked to agree to create and fund a position for the Director of Indigenous Ministry, “to be appointed by the Sydney Anglican Indigenous Peoples’ Ministry Committee (SAIPMC) with the concurrence of the Archbishop. But the… Continue Reading