Australians are giving less to charity but remain among most generous in the world
Australians are giving less to charity but remain among the most generous givers in the world, according to Australia’s peak charity body. Released by the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission this week, the Australian Charities Report 2016 found that donations and bequests fell last year from $11.2 billion to $10.5 billion. But it also found that, […]
CONVERSATIONS: ANDREA ROBERTSON – SINGER, SONGWRITER, AND MUSICIAN
Having just released her second album (and with a third on the horizon), Victorian singer/songwriter and musician Andrea Robertson speaks with DAVID ADAMS about her passion for music and the importance of family as well as the intersection between her music and her Christian faith…
Christian bakers? Atheist bakers? Cake meets faith at the Supreme Court
RNS The US Supreme Court is hearing the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd v Colorado Civil Rights Commission with a decision expected next year. PICTURE: Claire Anderson/Unsplash What if an atheist baker refused to bake a cake for a First Communion? What if a college with a religious affiliation didn’t want to rent out its chapel […]
BOOKS: STORIES OF GRACE, LOVE…AND DROPPING STONES
NILS VON KALM finds Carlos Rodriguez’s Drop the Stones filled with challenging stories about what it means to be Christ-like…
SPACE
Former Australian Federal Treasurer Peter Costello said, after retiring from politics, that one of the hardest things about being in power was not having any space to think. Getting away from it all! PICTURE: Niv Rozenberg/Unsplash The relentless knock of the media meant you had no time to stop and ponder, how to run the […]
CHRISTMAS FILM: KRISTIN CHENOWETH DRAWS ON HER FAITH TO GIVE VOICE TO A MOUSE IN ‘THE STAR’
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports from the US…
Coptic cathedral in Egypt reopens eight months after Palm Sunday bombing
World Watch Monitor A Coptic cathedral has been restored and reopened eight months after a suicide bombing there on Palm Sunday killed 28 and injured 74 others. St George’s Cathedral in Tanta, the capital of the Gharbia governorate north of Cairo, has been renamed the Cathedral of St George and the Martyrs, and its blood-splattered pillars […]
ESSAY: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN OUR BACKYARD – LET’S JOIN TOGETHER TO ELIMINATE IT
HANNAH SURABHI, of India’s My Choices Foundation – a partner organisation of Opportunity International Australia, reflects on gender violence during 16 days of activism following the recent International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women…
One of world’s largest diamonds fetches $US6.5 million to aid Sierra Leone
Thomson Reuters Foundation One of the world’s largest diamonds was sold for $US6.5 million by Sierra Leone on Monday to fund local development projects, dealing a blow to smugglers in the West African nation. The egg-sized, 709-carat diamond found by a Christian pastor was bought at auction in New York by Laurence Graff, a British […]