The Presbyterian Church of Australia is deeply concerned at recent events surrounding the resignation of Andrew Thorburn as chief executive of the AFL’s Essendon Football Club. We believe that this marks a watershed moment in Australian history – the day we have departed from some well-established common law principles, where …
For what it is worth, ‘Britney Spears’ is an anagram for ‘Presbyterians’. Of more significance is her recent foray into the world of social media where she has declared that she no longer believes in God but is an atheist. She wrote that she had rejected religion as a result …
The death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022 has led to a significant outpouring of emotion throughout much of the world, even in the United States which is not part of the British Commonwealth. Queen Elizabeth was on the throne before I was born. She reigned for seventy …
There should be a direct connection between grace and humility. If our works cannot possibly please God because everything is stained by sin, then the fact that God stoops down to save us when we cannot save ourselves should humble us. The God who inhabits eternity and whose name is …
The Christian faith requires us to look with realism at the state of the world and with hope to the promises of God. Both are necessary. The Western world gives every indication of being in an advanced state of decay. On 24 June 2022 the Supreme Court of the United …
Life consists of seasons – of birth and death; of joy and sadness; of silence and speech; and of deep issues and comparatively trivial issues (see Eccles.3:1-8). Yet, in a real sense, nothing we do is trivial. A cup of cold water given to a little one, as a Christian …
Every week or so, the media will publicise the need for more money and legislation to ensure better mental health in the community. Recently we were subjected to a report followed by a series of experts claiming that smacking children left them with lifelong mental health issues. The facts are …
Near the end of his short epistle, Jude tells his readers to respond with sensitivity to others, according to their situation (Jude 22-23). Alas, the text is something of a ‘mingle-mangle’, to use John Knox’s description of the English Reformation. The NKJV has two groups but the NIV and ESV …
The imminent death of little Emily, aged five, has hung like a black cloud over our family ever since her diagnosis with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) in late October 2021. The world suddenly shrank, and any sort of equilibrium seemed to have gone. Finally on Tuesday 24 May 2022 …
Few things in life are as pretentious or embarrassing as liberal Church synods, and in May 2022 there were two Anglican efforts to illustrate this – one in England and the other in Australia. The one in England was held in Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, and was a strongly …
