We instinctively form expectations, especially when it comes to an unconventionally titled book that’s generating lots of buzz. But so often, reality dispels our expectations. Hence the saying: Don’t ...

The night after Sri Lankan priest Kanishka Raffel was elected Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Jeri Jones Sparks woke up at 4am in pain and couldn’t get back to sleep. As the daughter of Tamil-speaking ...

“In 1974, I was an army officer, posted in a regiment in Brisbane. One night I was having a beer in the Officer’s Mess with the Catholic chaplain. I’d been brought up in the Catholic Church, but it ...

Trigger warning added 22/9/21: This story contains graphic details of assault with an indecent act and is likely to cause distress to people who have been victims of such abuse and may have been ...

Australian actor George Xanthis has played the role of John Travolta and one of the Capone brothers. But it is his current one, playing John the Apostle in The Chosen, that he says is “the best role ...

Marty Wood and his wife Jenny are “missionaries” with Fusion, currently serving in Japan. Somehow I’ve never fitted any stereotype of a missionary. Calling for me and for my wife, Jenny, seemed ...

A review of How to Think Theologically by Howard W. Stone and James O. Duke. Published by Fortress. Since theology is thinking about God, ‘thinking theologically’ is something of a tautology, like ...

Uganda’s late Orthodox Archbishop, Jonah Lwanga, was honoured with tributes from religious leaders, politicians and human rights advocates and an official state funeral on Tuesday. Lwanga was the ...

Ali and her husband Rich are missionaries with European Christian Mission based in Berlin. When we reach September in Berlin everyone knows that summer is soon to end. It feels like everyone wants to ...

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Every father in the world has an issue with handling anger when stressed, if we can take the fathers whom Brett Farrell spoke to in his Eternity podcast, Fatherhood, as any guide. “The thing I found ...

There was once a little girl who loved books. One day, when she was eight years old, she moved to Sydney and went to visit the Aboriginal mission in La Perouse. The little girl looked around at all ...