Charles Brammall remembers a great interview. In a scintillating Sep 2008 interview with Archbishop Peter Jensen and ABC Radio Drive Show host (the splendid Richard Glover), they discussed the subject of “faith”. Richard said something akin to: “I’d like to… 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
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
St Kilda’s landmark St Andrews Presbyterian Church, a huge building, has just gone on the market. On the brow of a hill, it is one of the Melbourne suburb’s main features. “At the corner of Alma and Barkly Streets, the… Continue Reading
Compare the pair: Rico tice, leader of the Christianity Explored course used by evangelicals around the world and former associate minister of All Souls Langham Place in central London, and pastor Barbara Taylor, who ministers at the rather less well-known… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall continues his story of setting up a ministry to entertainers in the leafy Sydney Suburb of Artarmon. North Ryde, where we initially set up church for our ENTER ministry, proved to be too far away for most entertainment… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Anglicans so much better at cover-ups: Obadiah set through each day of the Brian Houston case, watching the accusation of cover-up fall apart. Now, having read and summarised the Makin report into the abuse committed by… 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
Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the leader of the Church of England, has resigned – because he failed to act in the case of serial abuser John Smyth. Last week, the Makin Report, detailing a decades-long cover-up, was… Continue Reading
Four decades after the alarm was first raised, systematic abuse by a leader in the centre of a Church of England conservative evangelical network has been fully revealed in an official report. The Makin report into John Smyth QC (1941-2018),… Continue Reading