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
OPINION Mike Doyle, senior minister of St James Berala, was on the committee writing the Sydney Anglican report on “Attendance Patterns and Mission in the Diocese” Here’ are his personal reflections. I had the opportunity this year to be part of… Continue Reading
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) has collapsed, according to David Goodhew, a long-time researcher of Anglican Communion statistics and a visiting fellow of St John’s College, Durham University. “New numbers for the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) are out,… Continue Reading
An uneven spread of church decline (and some small rises) is revealed in the detailed stats in a report set to be debated at the Sydney Anglican Synod (church parliament) in September. The report reveals a pattern of decreases in… Continue Reading
Youthworks College, which trains youth pastors, has joined the growing relationship between Sydney Anglicans and the church in Madagascar, the large island 250km east of Africa in the Indian Ocean. Andrew Spalding, the College’s Old Testament lecturer, went one better… Continue Reading