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The number of Anglican Christians is growing by more than a million people every year, according to the respected scholar David Goodhew, visiting fellow of St John’s College, Durham University.“…new ...
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has upheld a decision of the Medical Board of Australia to suspend Christian doctor, Jereth Kok’s, from practising as a doctor. The Board’s and ...
The story of bringing The First Hymn back to life opens in cinemas on July 31. The feature-length documentary tells the story of a scrap of papyrus from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt that specialists in Oxford ...
The Fellowship of Evangelical Churches (FIEC), founded at the turn of the century, is one of our fastest growing church networks. The Other Cheek asked Andrew Heard, the FIEC chair and senior minister ...
Mark Short, Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn has been elected to lead Australia’s Anglicans. Here are some responses from other leaders. Archbishop Kanishka Raffel I welcome the election of the Right ...
My lovely Filipino mother-in-law Amy Lily Torrente, is Executive Director of Resources for the Blind, Inc. (RBI) Philippines. RBI differs from other missions to the sight-compromised, in that it is ...
Last year Andrew Turner the director of the Australian Baptist Ministries “Crossover” evangelism group noticed a outstanding stat that he had to look at twice: “I blinked and had to look at the number ...
John MacArthur spoke about slavery in a “Grace to you” talk in 2012, a talk that has been raised in a lot of discussion following his death. The Other Cheek has verified that it is on the Grace to You ...
There’s two views of hell to be found among today’s evangelicals, not one. This piece will quote two Aussies, both well regarded evangelicals. Let’s start with the traditional view of an everlasting ...
John F. MacArthur, a stalwart defender of biblical inerrancy and “Lordship” salvation, died today. He was 86. A prominent U.S. evangelical pastor, Chancellor of The Master’s Seminary, and long-time ...
Church attendance in Australia has risen each year since Covid reaching 1,305,200 in 2024 according to a new report from NCLS. Church Pulse Check 2021 to 2024 records a bounce back from a low of 1,025 ...
John McWhorter the idiosyncratic columnist of the New York Times is on to something when he describes two movements both obsesssed with “white power”: one wanting to destroy it the other seeking to ...