Faith leaders describe the Conversion Practices Ban Bill 2024 introduced into the NSW parliament last week as “a genuine effort by the Government to fulfill its election promises to protect religious freedom.” In a joint letter • Imam Shadi Alsuleiman, President… Continue Reading
The Conversion Practices Ban Bill 2024, introduced into the NSW Parliament yesterday, seeks to ban “conversion practices” aimed at changing or suppressing a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity captures some forms of prayer and counselling, but not sermons or… Continue Reading
Queensland’s proposed Anti-Discrimination Bill 2024 could make it impossible for doctrinally conservative churches to discipline clergy. This problem in the proposed law is revealed in an analysis on the Law and Religion Australia site by Dr Alex Deagon, an Associate Professor in the… Continue Reading
The acronym “DGR” is important to some Christian organisations but will be new to some readers. DGR stands for “deductible gift recipient” and means that someone giving to an organisation with DGR status can claim a tax deduction. DGR status is… Continue Reading
By Peter Bentley A Review of Keeping Faith: How Christian Organisations Can Stay True to the Way of Jesus (2023) by Stephen Judd, John Swinton, Kara Martin. One could think this is a perennial topic, but it has only had… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Taylor Swift and the totalitarianism of the right: The Other Cheek can’t bear to be the only part of the internet, not to mention Taylor Swift. So Obadiah will oblige, pointing to the deluge of conspiracy… Continue Reading
In a recent piece on The Other Cheek, political scientist Ryan Burge explored why Americans are shedding the “Evangelical” label – in 2008, 33 per cent of Americans surveyed said they were “evangelical” or “born again”; by 2022, those responses… Continue Reading
History has a way of rhyming, if not repeating, and John Dickson’s book Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History gives this reader an introduction to patterns of Christian blundering. But as often… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column A tip of the hat to Jeannine Baird ### Babylon, babble on: When Obadiah reported the comments of apologist Max Jeganathan on “Babylon” at this week’s Freedom For Faith conference, it seemed to Obadiah that he… Continue Reading
Max Jeganathan, an experienced apologetics speaker returning to Australia to join the Centre for Public Christianity found that there’s a big increase of contempt in our society when he came back. He recalled a line from a Renée Zellweger character… Continue Reading