1+ week, 1+ day 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, 2+ day 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, 1+ hour ago   (1544+ words) Daniel Silliman of Roys Report via Religion Unplugged A charismatic televangelist who created a career out of her past as a career criminal and drug dealer now has a startling new revelation: Aliens harvested her eggs. Katie Souza, whose show…...

2+ week, 6+ 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…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (984+ words) When I first met my (Filippino) wife, I was surprised to discover she was Conservative Evangelical rather than Roman Catholic, the former a tiny minority in the “Land of a Thousand Islands” (actually 7641 islands). Biblical Christianity has only been in…...

3+ week, 5+ 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   (982+ words) From the Two Pennies Facebookers He was supposed to be a caretaker pope. A placeholder. The cardinals thought he had a year or two in him at most. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was born in 1881 in a village near Bergamo, northern…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (576+ words) Following Algeria’s closure of nearly all evangelical churches in waves of repression that began in 2017, Christians have been forced underground in what they describe as an internal exile, sources said. Christians in the 99-percent Muslim country gather discreetly in homes,…...

4+ week, 1+ 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…...