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By: Clare Bruce
Churches across Australia are gearing up to meet, pray and worship in homes or stream their Sunday services online, to comply with the new Coronavirus-related social distancing rules — including a limit of 100 people at indoor gatherings . Continue reading “Church Online and Gatherings at Home: Adapting to the Coronavirus Pandemic”
By: Stephen McAlpine
I got home from church last night and my neighbour diagonally opposite, Kath, was out in her garden. It was a mild evening, sun not fully set, so I wandered over for a chat.
Continue reading “Kath Sees Our Christian Community, And She Wants Some”
By: Akos Balogh
Harvard Educated Federal Labor MP Andrew Leigh believes Australia could do with more churches. He believes churches are good for society. And yet Leigh is an Atheist.
Continue reading “The Atheist Who Wants More Churches In Australia”
By: Laura Bennett
This week Manly Life Church Pastor Tim Gionvanelli will take a team of four to see the work of African Enterprise in Kenya. Visiting some their development work in the slums, an orphanage school, and learning about their Foxfires gap year program, Tim believes the team will be encouraged by what they encounter in Africa.
Continue reading “Local Manly Pastor says the African Church is Thriving”
By: Neri Morris
This year began like many others. A review of the year that was and a look to what kind of year I wanted it to be. Coming into this year I realised within myself there was a sense of discontent with church.
By: Laura Bennett
With every mention of ‘the Middle East’, it’s hard to escape those mental images of deserts, war, terrorism, and the region’s complex religious history. Continue reading “Hillsong Israel – An Unconventional, Contemporary Church in an Ancient Landscape”
By: Brittany Ann
A few weeks ago, I received the following reader question:
Do you have any good reads or articles on struggling with women friendships? I have struggled my whole life, and right now am really feeling low, and just want to give up and run away–literally–from my town.
Continue reading “How to Make Friends When Your Church is Full of Cliques”
By: Brittany Ann
Sunday morning rolls around and you are faced with two choices: You can get up, get ready, get the kids ready and go to church, or you can sleep in and enjoy a lazy Sunday at home. Continue reading “Is Going to Church Really Necessary?”
By: Tania Harris
If we can all hear God’s voice for ourselves, do we still need to go to church? Continue reading “How Being in Church makes Hearing God Easier”
By: Anne Rinaudo
Catholic leaders have published a report responding to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. They have vowed that the Church’s shameful history will never be repeated. Continue reading “Catholic Church says it “has learned, it is changing and it will continue to change.””