Maybe some of the best people to help country kids are other country kids. After the shooting deaths of two police sent from the small Queensland village of Tara to a property in Wieambilla, plus an innocent neighbour, the Combined… Continue Reading
What do you do with children who think they know the Christmas story well? Maybe a quiz can get them thinking? It worked for my years 3 and 4 scripture class. Maybe it will occupy some brains on Christmas day… Continue Reading
A table of attendance figures circulating on the internet claims to show that Anglican churches in Sydney lost 10,000 regular attenders the year the Sydney Anglican diocese backed the same-sex marriage postal vote. The figures show an average Sunday attendance… Continue Reading
Day 13 Houston Frank Houston’s Australian victim, Brett Sengstock returned to court today to witness Brian Houston being cross-examined. Brian Houston is on trial for a failure to report the crime of his father who sexually assaulted Sengstock. Crown prosecutor… Continue Reading
Day 11 of the Houston trial. “If life could be played twice, would you do the same thing again?” defence barrister Phillip Bouten SC asked Brian Houston on trial for not reporting his father Frank Houston’s crimes to the police.… Continue Reading
From Release International The bodies of a Ukrainian Evangelical church leader and his 19-year-old son have been discovered in a forest. They had been tortured and killed, four days after being abducted by Russian soldiers. According to the Kharkiv Human… Continue Reading
A video of a confession by an evangelical minister confessing to being a bully, a response from another minister who has counselled him to come clean and one of the elders who accepted his resignation has been shared on some… Continue Reading
A visit to church at Christmas might be a natural thing to do for some, but for many Australians, even if they are believers, interrupting their holiday celebrations to attend a religious Christmas service may simply be too much to… Continue Reading
As Australia discusses Voice, Treaty, and Truth, the same urgent task faces each local church. A call to the local church to pursue reconciliation with local First Nations people comes in a speech Sandy Grant, Dean of Sydney’s St Andrews… Continue Reading