“For me, growing up on Boigu Island was like living in heaven on earth”, says indigenous evangelist, Laurel Pabai. Located in the northernmost tip of Queensland’s Torres Strait Islands and just six kilometres from Papua New Guinea, Boigu Island is where… Continue Reading
The Not the Bee website – the serious partner to the satirical “Babylon Bee” – conveys the news Joe Rogan’s 14m listeners have been given a serious Christian apologetic from Wes Huff, a speaker from Apologetics Canada and a PhD student at the evangelical… Continue Reading
Former President Peter Bentley gave a short history of the Australasian Religious Press Association at the 50th Jubilee and final gathering of the association. In 1974, a Christian communication network was established in Australia: The Australian Religious Press Association. I… Continue Reading
Photographer/ Reporter Ramon Williams sent the Australasian Religious Press Association (ARPA) greetings on their 50th Jubilee and revealed just how he got into Darwin. Williams has lived a lifetime of reporting and photographing news events, mostly for religious media, while… Continue Reading
AI (artificial intelligence) is proving it can do more and more things we once thought only human beings could do. The latest is podcasting. Akos Balogh, a thoughtful Christian blogger, recently set AI the task of producing a podcast using… Continue Reading
To the Gold Coast, for a sad/hopeful event as the Australasian Religious Press Association (ARPA) gathers for its 50th conference, which will be the last. The society of mostly print-based publications has decided to wind up – the number of… Continue Reading
The Wall Street Journal called it a “belated apology” and it was. This month, Salem Media, a major US-based conservative and christian radio network of over 100 radio stations and claims 13 million listeners, finally pulled the film 2000 Mules,… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column. Obadiah grew up suspicious of culture. We were not a big movie-going family, for example. And television only crept into the household after an older brother bought his own TV. Until then, it was half an… Continue Reading