The Church of England is turning to heated cushions to help beat climate change as part of its new zero carbon strategy, the Telegraph reports. The Church’s big energy problem is heating big spaces in ...

Freedom of speech is emerging as a key issue as responses to the latest draft of the Religious Discrimination Bill (RDB) become public. One set of speech scenarios have received a lot of publicity.

COVID-19 restrictions for New South Wales (NSW) churches will be relaxed from February 12, with the current four-square-metre rule being replaced by a two-square-metre requirement for indoor services.

John Zeckendorf, a Jewish Australian whose grandfather died in Auschwitz, was abseiling down a waterfall in the bush near Canberra when he was baptised by the Holy Spirit. “I was at the bottom of the ...

Sunday 3 February marked the 225th anniversary of the first Australian church service. Led by the colony’s chaplain, Rev Richard Johnson, the service was performed under a great tree just a week after ...

Today is the feast day of Saint Agatha and, until yesterday, I had never heard of her. I guess you could forgive me for not knowing much about the saints celebrated in Catholic, Orthodox and some ...

Rodney Rivers, MoolaBulla Gidja and Gooniyandi Tribes, Musician and Translator, Perth, WA, longs for unity among the churches in Australia as a model for a global outpouring of the Holy Spirit. G’day.

This week the Cornerstone Community around Australia is both grieving a loss and celebrating the life of one of its founders, Jack Buster. Jack Buster was one of the pioneers of Cornerstone, a ...

One place Aussies would not expect to buy a Bible is Westfield, the mall network that includes most of Australia’s top shopping centres. But that’s not true any more. Two of Westfield’s big shopping ...

New school year, new job, new city, new season – it’s an adventure that came with equal parts excitement and obstacles for many thousands of Australians this week. One such is Peter Gibson, who took ...

This week it will be the Anglicans’ turn to be embarrassed as the Royal Commission into the Institution Response to Child Sexual Abuse continues to examine the very sad story of the Church of England ...

“Thank you, God, for the gift of repentance. For in being forgiven, we have the chance to repent and say sorry,” says Bridget Sakr, standing on the same place where her daughter Veronique Sakr was ...