Open Book: How Jesus enters the pain of the oppressed
NILS VON KALM looks at a passage in Mark’s Gospel in which Jesus encounters a man possessed by an “impure spirit”…
CONCERT: U2 DELIVER A SPIRITED PERFORMANCE
NILS VON KALM was among the crowd at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium to watch U2 earlier this month…
JOHN SMITH: BIKIES TURN OUT IN THEIR HUNDREDS TO FAREWELL MINISTER TO THE MARGINALISED
DAVID ADAMS reports on the memorial service to iconic Australian preacher and evangelist John Smith…
ESSAY: JOHN SMITH – OUR VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS
Sight columnist NILS VON KALM remembers Australian preacher John Smith, who died earlier this month at the age of 76…
CHRIST AT THE CENTRE: AUSTRALIAN PREACHER JOHN SMITH’S “EXTRAORDINARY” LIFE
Australian preacher and God’s Squad founder John Smith died last week after a long battle with cancer. In a hitherto unpublished interview, DAVID ADAMS spoke with him in the middle of last year about his illness, its impact on his faith and his legacy…
Iconic Australian preacher John Smith dies at age 76
Last updated: 9th March Iconic Australian preacher and evangelist John Smith has died at the age of 76 following a long battle with cancer. John Smith in an undated photo. Rev Dr Smith, the founder of Christian motorcycle club God Squad as well as Christian mission and welfare organisation Concern Australia, was known as a […]
BOOKS: ‘SMITH HAPPENS’, A “BARREL OF LAUGHS” WITH A SERIOUS EDGE
NILS VON KALM has a laugh (or two) while reading Smith Happens, the “untold” story of Australian preacher and God Squad founder John Smith…
DVD: JOHN SMITH’S “STORY OF GRACE” HITS THE SMALL SCREEN IN ‘SMITHY’
NILS VON KALM reviews Smithy, a documentary on the life of iconic Australian preacher and God Squad founder John Smith…