An Obadiah Slope column Not glad: The Gladys Berejiklian texts with her erstwhile partner Daryl Maguire revealled by the NSW ICAC inquiry which found them both guilty of various shades of corruption, also serve as an example of the assertion… Continue Reading
It began with a Facebook conversation on a public thread. Person 1 asked whether believing Jesus was God was necessary to call themselves a Christian. Person 2 agreed it was not necessary and commented that the bounds of orthodoxy was… Continue Reading
The Diocese of the Southern Cross will be the new home for eight Uniting Church in Australia minister who became Anglicans today. An ex-Uniting Congregation now known as Faith Church Sunshine Coast was also officially launched today, creating a major… Continue Reading
The conservative movement within the Uniting Church (UCA), The Assembly of Confessing Congregations (ACC), closed its ministry with a thanksgiving service on Sunday, April 30, 2023, at Faith Church, a former Uniting Congregation that has joined the Diocese of the… Continue Reading
At least a couple of ex-Uniting Churches have been pondering whether to join the new Diocese of the Southern Cross, an Anglican lifeboat set up to look after conservative churches in progressive dioceses (church regions). Now the first ex-Uniting Church… Continue Reading
The Uniting Church is closing churches, right? Well, actually, there’s also some church planting by evangelical groups in the Uniting Church, sometimes into old Uniting church buildings that have seen better days. Kurralta Park, an inner suburb of Adelaide, might… Continue Reading
Propel, a movement of evangelical and charismatic congregations that have decided to stay in the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA), is proliferating. (In UCA-speak, congregation means a local church). “The Propel Network is significantly bigger than the old EL250 network… Continue Reading
“If the UCA in the Hunter is not already dying, within twenty years it will be all but dead, is a key sentence in a “Strategic Mission Plan” for the Hunter Presbytery (region) of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA).… Continue Reading
A Special General Meeting of the Assembly of Confessing Congregations Inc has voluntarily voted to cease business operations as of 30 April 2023. Over 90 per cent of the members at the meeting supported the closure. The Assembly of Confessing… Continue Reading
A group of conservative churches and members of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) have issued a manifesto calling for “amicable separation. The group known as the Assembly of Confessing Congregations (ACC) wish to be allowed to leave the UCA,… Continue Reading