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WEBPosted on 15/08/2024 by John Sandeman. The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) has collapsed, according to David Goodhew, a long-time researcher of Anglican Communion statistics and a visiting fellow of St John’s College, Durham University. “New numbers for the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) are out,…. Continue Reading →.
Wise words from the Catholic Weekly – Pro-lifers are free to vote ...
WEB1 day ago · Simcha Fisher, Columnist for Sydney’s Catholic Weekly – the only weekly religious paper in Australia – summed up the new situation for US pro-lifers: “We’ve never been so free to vote however we want, as long as we’re not voting with the intention of hurting somebody innocent. “But we don’t have to spend a single moment of our ...
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WEB6 days ago · Why I joined the anti war protest in Melbourne. Posted on 13/09/2024 by John Sandeman. This week protestors have targeted “Land Forces 2024” a massive expo featuring the latest ways of waging war. Margie Pestorius, a Queenslander Christian, tells The Other Cheek why she joined the protestors. …
'This is a brutal facts moment for us': Sydney's Anglicans have their ...
WEB2 days ago · Dominic Steele, Senior Minister at inner-city Annandale, delivered a no-holds-barred speech calling on Anglicans to respond to the fewer people in their churches. In a statistic-laden speech, Steele introduced a frank and detailed report on attendance patterns to the Sydney… Continue Reading →
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WEBSep 11, 2024 · Posted on 27/08/2024 by John Sandeman. Patrick Sookhdeo, founder of the Barnabas Aid charity, which supports persecuted Christians in the majority world, has been suspended along with other executives. “In the first part of 2024, a series of whistleblower allegations were made against a series of…. Continue Reading →.
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WEBAug 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 ...
When Charles Spurgeon took on slavery and Billy Graham took on ...
WEB3 days ago · Little wonder that, “Several volumes of Rev. Mr. Spurgeon’s sermons, strongly tinctured with anti-slavery and abolition, were burned in the jail yard.”. Not only so, but had he “visited the Southern states in 1860 as he planned to do,” the results may have been disastrous: “America might have executed him: ‘If the Pharisaical ...
Sydney’s Anglicans decline to make school leaders sign up to …
WEB4 days ago · Posted on 17/09/2024 by John Sandeman. Anglican school council members, school principals and board members of diocesan organisations will NOT have to sign up for a Sydney Anglican statement of marriage after a vote by their synod (church parliament) on Monday. The Executives and board members of Anglican schools and organisations in …
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WEBAug 20, 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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