The first results from Australia’s “church census” the National Church Life Survey” gives good news about committed young people and continuing church attendance. The Covid effect has been overcome in churches according to NCLS’s Australian Community Survey (ACS). “November 21,… Continue Reading
Martyn Iles is touring Australia with news of “Babylon”. It’s a metaphor from the Bible, Genesis tells us of the tower of Babel, built by humankind to rival God, later the site of Babylon, a cruel empire is an image… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column You have heard of or most likely used a Good News Bible or Contemporary English Version Bible, but did you know Australia has its very own easy-to-read Bible? It’s intended for Aboriginal peoples, whose first language… Continue Reading
Adelaide’s Trinity Church, a leader in church planting will host a $450m, 28-level office tower on its car park behind its historic buildings. Trinity will benefit from the ground rent from the site, which is owned by the church’s trustees. … Continue Reading
A series of horrifying gang rapes changed the Sydney suburb of Greenacre and nearly emptied the Anglican Good Shepherd church. Within a couple of years, the suburb changed from a place where most people owned their own homes to a… Continue Reading
Warren Cole Smith at Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) Last week, Lighten Group announced it was shutting down. We also learned this week that Jeff Brown is out as CEO of American Bible Society, after just two months on the job. Following RZIM’s… Continue Reading
Nils von Kalm writes on how the Indigenous Hawthorn AFL players and their partners who have made allegations of mistreatment expose a rotten culture in Australian society Apart from the incomprehensible ugliness of the racism allegations that we’ve seen this… Continue Reading
Conservative Christianity is unpopular says Martyn Percy. He’s right, but Jesus predicted unpopularity, didn’t he? Martyn Percy was responding on Thinking Anglicans to my piece “Martyn Percy takes on Sydney Anglicanism” https://theothercheek.com.au/martyn-percy-takes-on-sydney-anglicanism/ My further response is below. Martyn Percy in… Continue Reading
The new King, Charles III has walked back a statement that troubled many Christians. Rather than be the defender of the faith – a title Defensor Fidei – that dates back to Henry VIII even before he defected from Catholicism,… Continue Reading
Paul Clark on being an evangelical who wants to stay IN the Uniting Church. Not a year seems to go by without the Uniting Church becoming the punching bag of conservatives for seemingly weird or heretical positions taken on an… Continue Reading