Dr Ryan Anderson is the William E Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in the USA and Founder and Editor of the online journal Public Discourse (www.thepublicdiscourse.com). Dr Anderson recently visited Australia, sponsored by the Australian Christian Lobby to speak about same sex marriage. I attended his Sydney meeting held in the Strangers’ […]
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The latest biography of the late B.A. Santamaria, by Gerard Henderson, records an interesting incident. Santamaria had cooperated with the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix, to see the successful establishment of the Democratic Labor Party in Victoria, but had less success with the church’s Sydney heirachy. The Sydney Archbishop Gilroy and his Bishop,
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At Theological College it was suggested that we students read the newspaper, standing up, giving it a cursory reading. I have never followed that advice, I enjoy the daily paper in a comfortable chair, newsprint and all, no online version for me! Last week, I was asked to speak to a group of men about
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This past weekend I was in the Victorian countryside and challenged by an Elder for not being more involved in the media with the Church’s viewpoint. He was surprised when I told him about presbyterian.org.au and that I had written 62 columns since becoming Moderator General in September, 2013. Ministers, please make this website known
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Every pastor has been asked “will I know my loved ones on the other side?” The intermediate state is the time between our death and the day when Jesus Christ returns and we receive our new body. In that time we are disembodied souls, will we be able to recognise loved ones? We cannot be
Maxine and I returned to Australia on Tuesday after eight weeks overseas. We were five weeks in the UK, first at the Word Alive convention. This is like the Easter convention for the UK, this year held in North Wales. Word Alive has a solid commitment to expository ministry, each day started with sermons from
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Darryl Kerrigan loved Bonnie Doon for its serenity,’how’s the serenity, so much serenity’. After a weekend of vile terrorist activity, and the perverse normalisation of same sex marriage in the USA, through the declaration of the Supreme Court there, we need the reminder that these are days of serenity for the believer. How can the
On my recent trip to Malaysia, I was asked to expound Romans 13:1 – 7, the attitude of the Christian to the civil ruler. The Bible makes it clear that all “superior” authority, like that of Government, is derived from the supreme authority, God Himself, who establishes and institutes such authority. For the Christian, the
In the 1970’s or early ‘80’s, the now defunct Bulletin magazine published a lead article on the infiltration by the political left of three major institutions in Australia, the ABC, the environmental movement and the Uniting Church of Australia. With hindsight we can now see how successful the left has been. On any objective assessment,
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Our exit parish, after Moore College, was Wee Waa, in the North West on the black soil plains of NSW. Wee Waa at that time was the cotton centre of Australia and the local landscape was criss-crossed by irrigation channels. Visiting at night could be precarious if the channels were full of water, the driver