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A queer theatre company was evicted from a former Sydney church eight days after opening. John 9 has a scene the church rarely preaches. The healed man's parents are summoned; they know exactly what happened, and they refuse to say it. Fear of losing their place costs their son everything. Some of you have heard that silence.
NSW Supreme Court dismissed almost all of Kirralie Smith's and Binary Australia's appeal against the first findings of transgender vilification under NSW law (Smith v Blanch; Smith v Dennis [2026] NSWSC 879). The court confirmed the pair unlawfully vilified two transgender women who wanted nothing more than to play football with their teammates.
A transgender advocate examines David Crowe's Sydney Morning Herald column on Amnesty International's withdrawn anti-rights report, testing its logic against the original document. The report names JK Rowling's centre once among 117 organisations and never mentions Rowling herself, while documenting rapid growth in gender-critical and Christian-right campaigning since 2017.
Pauline Hanson told the National Press Club that the stranger is the problem — fewer migrants, fewer Muslims, fewer who pray or speak or love differently, and the country would be more itself. The tradition she claims for the nation says the opposite. A faith-framed response to One Nation's program.
Pauline Hanson says wealth has been stolen from ordinary Australians. She is right about the theft and wrong about the thief. From Naboth's vineyard to the cross, the tradition she claims exposes the oldest trick for stealing wealth: a false charge against the powerless. A faith-framed response to One Nation's program.
Pauline Hanson told the National Press Club that the country holds together by being the same. The tradition she claims says the opposite: a people is bound not by one blood or one tongue but by one law, applied to the citizen and the stranger alike. A faith-framed response to One Nation's program.
Pauline Hanson told the National Press Club that the migrant is a cost. The tradition she claims keeps a different ledger: Ruth gleaned in the harvest field and was woven into the bloodline of kings, and today's nurses, carers, students, and seasonal workers carry us still.
Pauline Hanson told the National Press Club that Australia's many languages are a problem. But the country was never monolingual, the Census refutes her fears, and the faith she claims for the nation began at Pentecost — where God blessed many tongues rather than imposing one.
Pauline Hanson told the National Press Club that migration caused Australia's housing crisis. The pain is real, but the blame is false witness. Scripture protects the stranger and names the real culprit: the hoarding of homes and the sale of the public stock.
A reply to Pauline Hanson's call for a monocultural Australia — the country has never been one culture, and the Judeo-Christian tradition she invokes commands welcome of the stranger.
Asks what a post-COVID church should change to reach young people, addressing abuse, inclusion and a “we-focused” society.
A year-end lectionary reflection on COVID, selfishness and the parable of the Sheep and the Goats.
A reflection after preaching, comparing public passivity amid bushfires and injustice to how ordinary Germans let Hitler rise.
Warns that religious “positive rights” laws aimed at LGBTIQA+ people could be a back door to rolling back women’s rights.
Inaugural post using the Beatitudes to challenge leaders who claim Christian values while harming the poor, refugees and the marginalised.