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
Martyn Iles, please reconsider you views on Acknowledgement of Country Continue Reading
Martyn Iles, Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, refuses to participate in “Acknowlegement of Country” – a form of words that “plays respect” to First Nations people and their historical displacement. “I avoid saying the acknowledgement of country,” Iles… Continue Reading