1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (1325+ words) As Chaplain at a Roman Catholic Aged Care facility, I was often asked by loved ones to perform the Last Rites over a dying (or even deceased) relative. This was to ensure they didn’t die (or go to Purgatory) with…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (455+ words) An Obadiah Slope column A complement of argument: There’s a vigorous response to the newish book God’s Yes to Women: Why the Bible’s Vision of Partnership Is Good News for Us All, which argues that all ministry in the church…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (591+ words) Anglicans are a bookish crowd, and proof that it is not just evangelicals who will persist in seeing the printing press as a preferred form of communication was evident when the launch of A True and Lively Faith attracted an…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (458+ words) Mike Southon of Freedom for Faith on their campaign against a Tassie conversion bill. One week into the campaign against the Tasmanian Greens’ proposed Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill, MPs are already hearing from concerned Tasmanians. More than 450 people have signed…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1057+ words) In a world where sloganeering replaces argument, a serious critique of the diocese one attends as a Sydney Anglican is welcome, despite – actually, because – it questions a deeply embedded practice. Rethinking Complementarianism: Sydney Anglicans, Orthodoxy and Gendered Inequality by Rosie…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (974+ words) Aaron Earls of Lifeway Research via Religion Unplugged In 1455, Johannes Gutenberg printed around 180 copies of the Bible, the first book to come from his movable type printing press. Last year, 570 years after Gutenberg, more than 19.1 million Bibles were sold in…...