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Aunty Jean Phillips awarded an OAM

Posted on 14/06/2025 by John Sandeman
Aunty Jean Phillips

The widely respected indigenous leader Aunty Jean Phillips was awarded a Medal of the Ordaer of Australia (OAM) in the latest King’s birthday honours. After decades of leadership, Phillips might be most widely known across the continent due to her… Continue Reading →

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Vic/Tas Unitings have sold more than ten per cent of their church buildings in the last 5 years

Posted on 13/06/2025 by John Sandeman
Canterbury Uniting church for sale

“Just heavenly: Holy listings boom across Vic as churches sell up” is the headline in a Herald -Sun story about the market activity in buildings designed as churches. The Catholics are quoted as saying they rarely close and sell a… Continue Reading →

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Children are (really) good gifts

Posted on 12/06/2025 by John Sandeman
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An excerpt from Motherhood: How the gospel shapes our purpose and priorities by Jocelyn Loane There is a gap of nearly six years between our third and fourth children (twins) and our fifth. Some of this time was a planned… Continue Reading →

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Life’s up and downs are precious

Posted on 10/06/2025 by John Sandeman

Learning to be present: Journeying up and down to Melbourne for the last three months to visit my sister Sylvia in hospital, for a short time in rehab, and now preparing for her funeral, rotating in and out of those… Continue Reading →

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A gutsy student at NIDA

Posted on 10/06/2025 by John Sandeman
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Entertainment industry chaplain Charles Brammall at the epicentre of Australian acting  Professor Ken Healey, lovely, God-fearing History of Theatre lecturer at NIDA, invited me to lecture the whole of the student body on “The Lasting Effect of the Judeo-Christian Heritage… Continue Reading →

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Compassion, the mark of knowing God

Posted on 08/06/2025 by John Sandeman
Sylvia Sandeman 2025

The Other Cheek remembers my big sister Sylvia Sandeman who died late last month: A Sermon on Amos 7: 7-17, Luke 10: 25–37 & Colossians 1: 1–14 by Sylvia Sandeman As I read the Lectionary passages for today one word… Continue Reading →

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Is Egypt’s government trying to take over Christianity’s most important monastery?

Posted on 06/06/2025 by John Sandeman
Saint Catherine Monastery Sinai

Paul Marshall via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) Much of the Christian world, especially the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, has been roiled by reports that an Egyptian court has mandated that St. Catherine’s Monastery be taken over by the government. This… Continue Reading →

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Up and down the mountain of church music ministry

Posted on 05/06/2025 by John Sandeman

Adam Burt, CEO at Vivlos a Christian communications ministry, tells us what he learned about music at a preaching course. I’ve been lucky enough to attend the Cornhill program at Moore College. It’s an insanely good course. The quality of… Continue Reading →

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Meeting the Adult Industry

Posted on 04/06/2025 by Charles Brammall
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Charles Brammall on being a chaplain in the entertainment industry  Our evangelistic and pastoral relationship with the adult industry (a vexed one) was never planned. I was asking Artarmon shopkeepers if we could put up posters for SPLAT (the Artarman… Continue Reading →

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Bellringers sad as a bell tower falls silent

Posted on 03/06/2025 by John Sandeman

An Obadiah Slope column No names: Obadiah won’t be naming a church or denomination, but there’s a group of bell ringers sad that they have been told they can’t ring the bells any longer at a particular church. Obadiah is… Continue Reading →

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