I was 25 years old, just married, a youth pastor and budding lawyer when I heard that Jimmy Carter had been defeated in the 1980 presidential election by Reagan. I burst into tears at the news and my ...

When 19-year-old Holly left her hometown on the south coast of NSW for university, she was nervous. Not only was she leaving home for the first time and heading to the city after living in the country ...

Mathew Green is an educator and school leader. His award-winning podcast, The Art of Teaching is where he interviews the best minds in education and leadership from Australia and around the world.

During my formative years, my family lived on Sydney’s leafy North Shore. This was the 1970s and 80s, when that part of Sydney was predominantly an Anglo-Saxon Bible belt, and people would have ...

I have been following the debate about a positive right of freedom for religion in Australia. I do think we need such a right but I do not think it should be considered in isolation from a general ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, met with Aboriginal Christian pastors and leaders at St John’s Anglican Church in Sydney last week as part of his 14-day visit to Australia. Gubbi Gubbi, ...

Death is the ultimate act of differentiation – a journey that we must take physically, alone, as we decay and return to the dust from which we came. Our body will continue to disintegrate until only ...

The second the life of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II ended – and it was a majestic life – Charles III became King. But declaring and celebrating a new era at that point would have been … let’s say ...

Sometimes I resent making dinner for my family. I used to imagine I was that person who was gloriously hospitable, that person who just ‘whipped something up’. That person whose kids asked ‘what’s for ...

While many Christians are debating what the church should and shouldn’t say about Covid-19 vaccinations, Rev. Bill Crews is ploughing ahead with getting vaccines into the arms of vulnerable people. He ...

While studying the book of Romans at Vancouver’s Regent College in 2001, Simon Smart and his classmates joked that it was worth the price of admission just to hear the lecturer’s opening prayer. This ...

Hopes for 2022: more thriving churches and mission-minded Christians in the Top End 3 Jan 2022 8:19AM ...