Andrew Buchanan and his wife Abi Tandiseru are missionaries with the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Toraja, Indonesia. Andrew teaches biblical studies, primarily in the post-graduate department of ...
When John Harris walks into the library at St Mark’s Theological College in Canberra, he is in his natural habitat. He spends several days a week here, researching and writing. All who walk past him ...
Reaction to the latest summer lamb ad, a staple on Australia’s advertising calendar, tells us one thing: we’re tired of being put in boxes. The ad, titled Lamb Side Story released yesterday by Meat ...
Hillsong is taking over Australia according to a slice of lefty end of the twitterverse. Thirteen out of the twenty two cabinet members are from Hillsong is one of the persistent memes – and we will ...
If you can’t get Lauren Daigle’s hit song Thank God I Do out of your head, there’s a good reason: it was the most-played song on Australian Christian radio in 2023. “This should come as no surprise to ...
A push-back by conservatives in the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) that would have temporarily halted same sex marriages has been defeated. Last year the UCA’s National Assembly voted by a large ...
Pastor Ada Boland has lived in Townsville for the past 25 years. A member of Indigenous Apostolic Prophetic Voice Ministry to the Church, she first sought to know God as a teenager and since then the ...
Jo Kadlecek is communication manager at Baptist World Aid Australia, a non-profit organisation that now works in 18 countries with 38 local Christian partners in projects to “end poverty so that all ...
Just as in the US, Australia is becoming polarised between right and left. Some Christians, though, want to be both faithful and support social justice. Indeed, they feel commanded to pursue both. And ...
Six Christians have been killed by suspected Al-Shabaab militants in a village in Kenya, with another Christian man murdered nearby less than a day later. In the first attack, at least one victim was ...
What does unity have to do with anointing? The benefits of unity are not hard to sell. “Good”, “pleasant”, a “commanded blessing”, “life forevermore”. In our increasingly divided and aggressively ...
Simon Manchester has an unusual voice – one that’s easily recognised by anyone who has listened to him on Hope 103.2 radio over the past 15 years. The recently retired senior minister of St Thomas’s ...