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The Great Collapse
One of the challenges we are all living with is the reality that many churches will close in the next decade. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but it is a reality that is upon us. Every Diocese in Australia has a cohort of churches with very small numbers and mainly elderly parishioners. […]
From Anglo-Catholicism to Evangelicalism
Jack Lindsay’s recent article describing the joy and satisfaction he found in Anglo-Catholicism after a start in Anglican Evangelicalism led me to reflect on my own journey – discovering Anglican Evangelicalism after a High Church upbringing. Firstly, I am not confident to draw the fuzzy but existent line between High Church and Anglo-Catholic. Nevertheless, there […]
CULTURE CLUB
This is a paper I presented recently at a discussion/mentor group for a small group of younger clergy and youth workers new in ministry, called “Culture Club” “How should the Church respond to rapid and major social and cultural change?“ I have just read and reviewed three books on the history of the Australian Church […]
Training Evangelical Anglican Leaders in the Developing World – Tim Swan
An extract from Essentials, Summer 2020 By Tim Swan, CEO, the Archbishop of Sydneyâs Anglican Aid Right now, a terrifying number of pastors and teachers around the world are inadvertently leading their people astray because they lack solid biblical understanding, and are being “blown here and there by every wind of teaching.” (Eph 4:14). At […]

Three Benefits of Fostering a Multicultural Church

Details: Written by: Ben Clements; Created: 01 April 2022

Three Benefits of Fostering a Multicultural Church

Benjamin Clements Assistant Curate Deep Creek Anglican Church

If you were to ponder three or four words that describe your church or ministry, would 'multicultural' be one of them? Christians can hold a variety of views around multicultural ministry.

Perhaps you are curious about multicultural churches but aren't sure what the benefits might be. Or perhaps you've been considering pursuing a more multicultural community in your church but aren't sure how to communicate it biblically or pragmatically with others. In this article, we will consider three benefits of fostering a multicultural church.

What is a 'multicultural' church?

Before we discuss the benefits of fostering a multicultural church, it's important to consider what 'multicultural' is. Demarcations of race and ethnicity are certainly major categories which constitute a person's culture, but so are lesser considered differences, such as generational age groups, differences in income, profession, education, and gender. While it's always beneficial to consider multicultural in the broadest sense of the term, we will give particular focus to demarcations of race and ethnicity in this article.

From Anglo-Catholicism to Evangelicalism - a Response

Details: Written by: Frances Cook; Created: 26 February 2022

Frances Cook offers a response to Jack Lindsays excellent article in Essentials, Summer 2021, "Being Anglo-Catholic in Australia, What does it mean and why on earth do it?"

Jack Lindsay’s recent article describing the joy and satisfaction he found in Anglo-Catholicism after a start in Anglican Evangelicalism led me to reflect on my own journey - discovering Anglican Evangelicalism after a High Church upbringing.

Firstly, I am not confident to draw the fuzzy but existent line between High Church and Anglo-Catholic. Nevertheless, there are things in Jack’s article which he seems to identify as Anglo-Catholic, which in fact can be shown to be Anglican from the sixteenth century Anglican formularies and others which belong in the realm of High Church and not exclusively within nineteenth century Anglo-Catholicism.

New Zealand’s Tragedy And The Problem Of Evil

Details: Written by: Peter Corney; Created: 30 August 2020

On the 27^th August 2020 the New Zealand’s High court brought down the judgement of imprisonment for life without release on Brenton Tarrant the Australian terrorist who attacked two Mosques in New Zealand on March 15^th, 2019. He shot and killed 51 people and seriously injured 40 others with semi-automatic weapons. This terrible tragedy struck at the heart of the way New Zealanders think of themselves, as tolerant and inclusive people. Many of the victims were relatively recent immigrants to N.Z.

This event raises many questions for us: Is the perpetrator, a self-confessed member of the extreme ‘alt -right’ and a ‘white supremacist’, part of a growing movement that will further stress our democratic liberal societies and how do we counter that? Given what appears to have motivated this act how can we survive the pressures being created by the massive people movements around the world, the clash of cultures and the xenophobia they produce? Can we reign in the spread of these toxic ideological viruses on the ‘Web’ that seem to be the way many like Brenton Tarrant are radicalised?

Pivot Conference Talks August 2020

Details: Written by: Chris Appleby; Created: 08 August 2020

Here are two of the talks from the Pivot conference held via Zoom in August 2020, one in text form the other as a video presenttion.

A New Mission Era Stephen Hale 5^th August, 2020
Is this a significant turning point or just a road hump in mission history?

It has been suggested that there have been Four Eras of Christian History:

500 years up unto the fall of Rome (empire becomes Christian)
500 years up to the Great Schism (split between eastern and western church)
500 years up to the Great Reformation (recovery of Scripture and the gospel of grace, this Reformation was spread via the embrace of the printing press, so people had access to God’s word in their native tongue)
500 years up until today (Has been described era of Christendom – church spread via empire and mission to four corners of globe)

National Evangelical Anglican Conference 2024 Videos, etc.

Details: Written by: Chris Appleby; Created: 06 September 2018

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The National Evangelical Anglican Conference 2024 was held in April-May 2024, in Sydney

Videos and audio files from the Conference will appear as they become available. Videos will be found on the National Conference Video Page. Audio files can be found here: