An Obadiah Slope column. Obadiah is curious to know if Peter Dutton was away the week they studied 1 Kings or 2 Chronicles at his alma mater, St Paul’s Anglican School, Bald Hills. But Dutton would have learned a valuable… Continue Reading
A new book, Statements from the Soul, gathers essays that read as cries from the heart from religious leaders who back a positive response to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, including Indigenous Voice in some fo… Notable essays for… Continue Reading
In a sermon for Aboriginal Sunday (a name for the Sunday before January 26), Kanishka Raffel, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, honoured the work of William Cooper, a Christian First Nations man who called the Aboriginal people to observe a… Continue Reading
While the Sydney Anglican Synod voted last year urging that “church members to give generous consideration to the case to vote ‘Yes’ to the referendum question of whether the Constitution should establish a First Nations Voice, once the details have… Continue Reading
How Christians relate to First Nations will be a big issue in 2023: This was one of The Other Cheek’s most-read stories in 2022. Martyn Iles, please take the time to reconsider your reasons for avoiding saying an Acknowledgement of… Continue Reading
The Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship (AEF) is exactly what the name says, an indigenous-run evangelical fellowship that has been supporting churches and developing First Nation leaders for over 50 years. It has never had money to spare. In their own words,… Continue Reading
In his opening lecture for the ABC’s prestigious Boyer series for the ABC, indigenous leader Noel Pearson has laid bare a challenge to the nations but Christians in particular. “We are a much unloved people,” he tells Australa, speaking of… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column A mystery explained: There was a great passage of world-weariness, from a memoir in Good Weekend by Nadia Wheatley of George Johnson and Chairman Clift, both great Australian writers retreating from success in London and seeking… 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
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