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‘Do you want this coffee?’, my mum asked. Little did she know that in that one sentence and gesture, she was affirming my faith....

“If there’s stigma and shame around mental health, they’re not going to talk to the church… they’ll think we’re going to judge them.”...

Approximately 35 per cent of pastors had “seriously considered” quitting, according to research from clinical psychologist Valerie Ling....

Research shows that 40 percent of Australians would say yes if they were invited to church at Easter time....

Perhaps there is a new category of church that could be imagined – for want of a better name, “church-lite”. Brian Harris reflects....

Despite the challenges of the ongoing war in Ukraine, FEBC is finding unique ways to reach more people with a message of hope....

“Rates of domestic abuse in the church community are about the same as in the broader community,” Anglicare’s Lynda Dunstan says....

The church needs to be made up of genuine disciples – even if the music is lousy, and the congregation a tad unusual, writes Brian Harris....

We need to build Christian worship that complements both old and new, and is true… Worship cannot be aesthetics alone, writes Stephen McAlpine....

The issue of same-sex marriage has caused a deep, dividing rift within the Anglican Church in Australia. Mike Crooks explains....

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