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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Niall Reid, the head of the Uniting Church in NSW, has implored his church to start selling its underutilised churches, manses and halls and give the proceeds to the poor and disadvantaged.

Faced with dwindling congregations and conceding the church could all but disappear in 30 years, the [...]

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An update on the sad story of Francis Macnab and St Michael’s Uniting Church.

The Uniting Church Synod voted today to request St Michael’s remove freeway signs and other media related to its “new faith” advertising campaign because it causes “deep offense to many Christians, Jews and Muslims”.

The denomination is in a dilemma. Macnab has pushed [...]

Francis Macnab. Photo: John Woudstra

Posing for photographs in front of a 19th century church organ, Francis Mcnab proclaimed a new faith for the 21st century.

Apparently a new faith was necessary because the old faith (orthodox Christianity) no longer works.

Out goes Abraham—a concoction. Out goes Moses—a mass murderer. Out goes the 10 Commandments—one of the most [...]

I’m reading Catholicism and modernity: Confrontation or capitulation? by James Hitchcock. Written in the late 1970s in the wake of Vatican II. He writes as an orthodox Catholic facing the growing liberalisation of his faith from within the Church.

There are striking parallels in the story of the Episcopalian demise in the US and Canada and [...]

Today I’m releasing the latest in a series of case studies in the lifecycle of a movement: SCM - Missionaries to Marxists

We’ll be looking at the final stage of the lifecycle: death. The case study I’ve chosen is especially instructive for those on left wing of the Emerging Church, described by Ed Stetzer as revisionists. [...]