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2 days ago · A non-partisan positive prayer about the US Presidential election. Posted on 05/11/2024 by John Sandeman. The Other Cheek can’t even find a hint of where Anglican Minister Geoff Robson leans politically from this prayer about the US election. Which means it is a prayer we can all use.
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Posted on 03/11/2024 by Morning Star News. NAIROBI, Kenya, October 25, 2024 (Morning Star News) – Islamist villagers in eastern Uganda burned a pastor and his family to death after he led three Muslims to faith in Christ, the pastor’s brother said. Pastor Weere Mukisa, his 25 …
A harm-free election and dots not for joining - THE OTHER CHEEK
3 days ago · An Obadiah Slope column Democracy lives: As I Left the school this week after a volunteer Scripture teaching lesson (SRE in NSW, RI in Qld), I realised that an election was afoot for the school SRC with an impressive array of posters. Obadiah has blurred the candidates’ faces. When young Mr Slope was in primary school, …
Archbishop of Canterbury resigns - THE OTHER CHEEK
1 day ago · Posted on 13/11/2024 by John Sandeman. Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the leader of the Church of England, has resigned – because he failed to act in the case of serial abuser John Smyth. Last week, the Makin Report, detailing a decades-long cover-up, was finally made public.
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Nov 7, 2024 · Twenty of our churches contributed 50% of the growth of all the churches: What the Sydney Growth/decline report shows. OPINION Mike Doyle, senior minister of St James Berala, was on the committee writing the Sydney Anglican report on “Attendance Patterns and Mission in the Diocese” Here’ are his personal reflections.
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Aug 10, 2024 · Top news from the top end. Record student stats from Nungalinya College in Darwin reveal the First Nations’ college is doing well, despite the difficulties that have led to the closure of other institutions Wontulp-Bi-Buya in Cairns and School of Indigenous Studies, University of Divinity. “2023 was a record year, with 336 Indigenous ...
An open letter from a Lutheran breakaway from Adelaide
Feb 5, 2024 · He leads a breakaway church called St Peter’s Evangelical-Lutheran Church, that meets at the Public Schools Club on EastTerrace Adelaide. “I assure you that I have come to this decision with the utmost seriousness,” van der Hoek writes in an open letter dated February 1. “My reason for doing so is to use the pastoral office given to me ...
A jump in Home Schooling numbers, but be careful about saying …
Oct 9, 2024 · A report in The Conversation says in New South Wales, 12,359 students were registered for homeschooling in January 2023, a 37% jump on the 2022 figures. In Victoria, the most recent figures show there were 11,912 homeschooled students as of December 2022, an increase of 36% since 2021. In Queensland, where new laws regulating homeschooling have ...
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Jun 25, 2024 · Book Review by Stephen Driscoll of Subjects and Citizens The Politics of the Gospel: Lessons from Romans 12–15 by Michael Jensen. Michael Jensen‘s new book surprised me, because I was expecting a different kind of book.