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3,000 dead in Goma, DRC; Anglican Aid reports

Posted on 15/03/2025 by John Sandeman
Goma, DRC

Tim Swan CEO of Angican Aid issues an urgent update. We have just heard from Bishop Martin Gordon in Goma. He said that at least 3,000 people have been killed in his city. Many thousands have been injured, and hospitals… Continue Reading →

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Melbourne Anglicans accused of submiting to conversion therapy law

Posted on 12/03/2025 by John Sandeman
Anglican logo

The Anglican Archdiocese of Melbourne (ADOM) has been alleged to have amended its Code of Conduct for Child Safety & Wellbeing in a manner which forces church workers to obey Victoria’s Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act (CSP ACT).… Continue Reading →

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Mark Leach, co-founder of ‘Never Again is Now’ on leaving church ministry.

Posted on 12/03/2025 by John Sandeman

When Mark Leach, then the senior minister of Rozelle Anglican Church in inner Sydney, heard of a pro-Palestinian demonatration being held in the CBD within a couple of days of the massacre and kidnappings of October 7, 2023 he protested… Continue Reading →

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Re-lenting: Praying in Melbourne

Posted on 10/03/2025 by John Sandeman
St Pauls Cathedral Melbourne

Un-expectedly in Melbourne, caring for a sibling who was rushed to hospital, Sunday morning saw me at St Paul’s Cathedral, challenged to take lent – the season of reflection and repentance leading up to Easter – very seriously. At the… Continue Reading →

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John Smyth’s victims and their families in Zimbabwe hope for closure

Posted on 05/03/2025 by John Sandeman
John Smyth

Cyril Zenda via Religion Unplugged HARARE, Zimbabwe — “He hurt us. … Guide was an only boy in a family of seven girls. What he (the abuser) did was grossly unfair. May his spirit burn in hell!” These are sentiments… Continue Reading →

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A third fleet ancestor; ad of the year; workplace generosity

Posted on 02/03/2025 by John Sandeman

An Obadiah Slope column Georgian architecture and human struggle: Mrs Slope took Obadiah on an adventure usimg the new light rail (or tram for Melburnians) that snakes through Parramatta. The light rail made it easy to explore the old asylum… Continue Reading →

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‘Spiritually strong but numerically poor,’ the churches of Canterbury Bankstown join together

Posted on 27/02/2025 by John Sandeman
T4CB meeting

At first glance, Sydney’s Inner South West is the city’s “unBible belt,” suburbs where churches are doing it tough, but look deeper and signs of spiritual vitality emerge. One of these is a growing desire for gospel centred churches to… Continue Reading →

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Sacked for writing prayer points after hours

Posted on 26/02/2025 by John Sandeman
Fair Work Commission

Today’s hearing of Cheng v Church Missionary Society Australia Limited (CMS) is a rare instance of a Christian worker taking their employer to the Fair Work Commission seeking redress in an unfair dismissal case. Nothing in this story should be… Continue Reading →

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Kenya’s Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit ‘partially thanks’ Trump for USAID disruption.

Posted on 12/02/2025 by John Sandeman
Jackson Ole Sapit Feb 6 2024

Kenya’s Anglican Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit says that President Trumps shutting down USAID (United State’s Agency for International development) is a wake up call for Africa, and it is time for the continent to manage its own resources and feed… Continue Reading →

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66 people are leaving my church today – and it’s a blessing

Posted on 09/02/2025 by John Sandeman
st lukes burwood north

In hyper-local news, 66 people—52 adults and 14 young people—some of the best and brightest members of St James Anglican, Croydon—are being farewelled at today’s gatherings. But it’s good news. It is sad that people we’ve shared the joys and… Continue Reading →

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