Should Churches Be the First to Reopen?

Recently the headlines in The Australian under, ‘Catholic bishops push Premier to open NSW churches’ (3 May), raised my eyebrows in joy. The proposal to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian was signed by Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher and 17 others, including [...]

ANZAC DAY 2020: WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

NSW residents will be able to commemorate ANZAC Day from home this year with a broadcast of special services to honour our veterans and serving Defence personnel. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said with traditional marches and local memorial services cancelled this year, [...]

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COVID crisis leads to Faith

Vin Scully predicts more Americans will respond to COVID crisis with faith: An atheist doctor comes to faith through a dying priest Vin Scully is a legendary baseball broadcaster, the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1950 to 2016. Now [...]

How to Make the Most of Your Online Church Experience

How to Make the Most of Your Online Church Experience One of my favourite verses about our weekly worship gatherings is found in the Psalms: "Come, let us shout joyfully to the Lord, shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation! [...]

The Coronavirus and the Church of the Future?

I participated in my first on-line sermon on Sunday. As the Coronavirus shuts down churches and keeps us indoors for the indefinite future, we may be wondering what to do as Christians living amid plague. How should we live when we [...]

A COVID-19 World

On Living in a Pandemic Age Can you recall the moment the COVID-19 pandemic reached the centre of the Australian consciousness? On Wednesday, March 11, in the span of a single hour, the US President addressed the nation, the National Basketball [...]

Porn and Youth

Australian Government's announcement that they are supporting the implementation of online age verification for online pornography in Australia is good news.  See Press Release The next steps will see the eSafety Commissioner developing a roadmap for bringing in the mandatory age [...]

This World or the Next?

I was reading a USA Blog that Pete Buttigieg has “surged to a 10-point lead in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary,” according to a poll released the other day. The New York Times reports that he also holds a “commanding lead” [...]

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