What if Andrew Thorburn is right? Just suppose Andrew Thorburn, forced to choose between his church and his short-lived position of CEO of the Essendon Football Club was right when he said “The media and leaders of our community …… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Lefty Christians: Clive Hamilton founder of the left think tank The Australia Institute only realised that several of its early board members were Christians, “it was only writing the memoir that II looked back and thought… Continue Reading
The chair of City on a Hill, an evangelical church based in Melbourne, but with branches in Geelong, NSW and Queensland, has been forced to resign as CEO of the Essendon AFL club, one day after taking up the job.… Continue Reading
Australia’s “big things” (the giant banana in Coffs Harbour NSW or The Big Lobster in Kingston SE, SA are tourism boosters. But the newest one has a different purpose. The Cross on Memory Mountain, is big, 20m high, and will… Continue Reading
When Katrina, a photographer from Brisbane, posted on Facebook that she did not think drag queens are good role models for children, following publicity about a Brisbane city library drag queen story time event, she did not expect to be… Continue Reading
Queensland Theological College (QTC) has been fundraising to save their building in inner Brisbane. QTC tells The Other Cheek they are now in a position to make an offer to the receivers who are selling their building. The collapse of… Continue Reading
Writer Nils von Kalm is grateful. Just another impossibly beautiful sunset from my balcony in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Today was one of those magical Melbourne days where there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, there was just a… Continue Reading
After 28 years in Philadelphia, USA, Dr Coz Crosscombe, the Assistant Minister at Mt Druitt Anglican in Western Sydney, has fresh eyes on how we do Church in Australia. He is “loaned out” four days a week to work… Continue Reading
Indigenous churches under the Australian Indigenous Ministries (AIM) banner have been shielded from the compensation battle over child sexual abuse at institutions run by the former mission society. A court case brought by a former resident of the AIM-run Retta… Continue Reading
How often do you seek a church building “converted” to other uses? Quite often, unfortunately. How often do you see one become a church again? Not often, but here’s a story of one which came back. St Paul’s has stood… Continue Reading