As Covid swept the world, the poorest people in the world living on the East and South of Madagascar were hit with severe drought. Anglican Aid mounted a food support project that had a surprising result. The Anglican Diocese of… Continue Reading
Clergy, churchworkers, and any Christian taken before a tribunal when accused of breaching the Conversion Practices Ban Act in NSW have been assured by Archbishop Kanishka Raffel and the Sydney Anglican Synod that they will be supported. “I concluded by… Continue Reading
Archbishop Kanishka Raffel made conversion, his and the need for Sydneysiders who do not know Christ to be converted, the theme of his speech to this year’s Sydney Anglican Synod (church parliament). He told the story of his own conversion,… Continue Reading
Gail Orchard, an Anglican Deacon in the Diocese of Newcastle, has won a three-year battle in the church’s legal structures, overturning a charge of “conduct that is a habitual and wilful neglect of ministerial duty.” A finding by the Anglican… Continue Reading
A survey of Canberra-Goulburn synod members shows “59% are unable to affirm the statement that our ‘current suite of safe ministrypolicies and practices are effective at keeping our communities safe.’”according to an interim report of the diocese’s Safe Ministries Working Group (SMWG). “For clergy, this figure… Continue Reading
The closure of church buildings and vaccine mandates that were endorsed by the leaders of the Sydney Anglican Diocese have been upheld in a report from the Diocese’s Standing Committee prepared for this month’s Synod (Church Parliament). Referring to a… Continue Reading
Last Sunday lunchtime, Obadiah did his best to avoid any of the three marches (anti-immigration, pro-Palestine and anti-anti-immigration) that filled various streets in Sydney. Instead of protesting, he was on an errand to retrieve his lost mobile phone, which Find… Continue Reading
Two years of consecuative growth have led to a rebound in Sydney Anglican attendance figures since bottoming out in 2022. Overall growth in attendance of 4.5% between 2023 and 2024 followed a post-Covid bounce back of 11% in 2023 consecutive… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column ### Funny bun: Archbishop Jeremy of Brisbane commits pun-ishment… and Obadiah notes the names of two other Bishops at least gave him a like. Giggling, no doubt! Tradition for sale: Spotted in the “preloved uniform shop… Continue Reading
The number of Anglican Christians is growing by more than a million people every year, according to the respected scholar David Goodhew, visiting fellow of St John’s College, Durham University.“…new data show[s] that the Communion has radically changed, and this… Continue Reading