An Obadiah Slope Column News from the North: Obadiah frankly admires the Church of England, General Synod. Why/ because of its openness. It is live-streamed. When they take a vote, they use an electronic voting system that even elderly Bishops… Continue Reading
Alliance Defending Freedom HELSINKI (24 JULY 2026) – The Finnish parliamentarian criminally convicted for “insulting” a group by Finland’s Supreme Court has filed an application to appeal her conviction to the European Court of Human Rights this week, commencing the final legal… Continue Reading
Kirralie Smith will have to publish an account of how two male-to-female footballers were vilified by her following a judgment handed down in the NSW Supreme Court, in the latest installment of a long-running case. Update: Prof Neil Foster correctly… Continue Reading
Christian Legal Centre After a seven-year, high-profile legal battle on multiple fronts, Rev. Dr Bernard Randall, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, has secured a legal settlement with Trent College and succeeded in overturning the Church of England’s (CofE) safeguarding… Continue Reading
Stephen McAlpine, public theologian and author, has attended the conservative ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) conference in London and, unlike others, has come back in two minds.He appears somewhat sympathetic to the “rebuilding the west” theme that ARC runs with,… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Good job: A headline, “Bishops welcome minimum wage increase,” is on the Catholic Weekly site. Would one find it on an Anglican site? If not, why not, Obadiah asks. The Catholic Weekly story reveals that, acting… Continue Reading
I first came across the Bernard Gaynor case years ago, but I have resisted writing about it. Gaynor, a conservative Catholic and prolific internet commenter, was dismissed from the Army Reserve for provocative public comments. An example was an article… Continue Reading
Victoria should amend the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act 2021 to clarify what a conversion practice is, following the guidelines NSW and SA laws, according to a submission by religious leaders to a Victorian Law Reform Commission (VLRC)… Continue Reading
ADF Alliance Defending Freedom A judge dismissed criminal charges against a Glaswegian grandmother who was arrested for offering consensual conversation in a “buffer zone”, in a significant victory for free speech last week. Sheriff Stuart Reid’s ruling, dismissing two charges… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Listening to the ABC PEP (Planet Extra Podcast) takes the Christian virtue of perseverance, as it often runs three hours. But perseverence yields real gems.The latest is “correspondence” from Dr Andrew Judd from Ridley College, offering… Continue Reading