Advance Australia Where?

This article was written for the ACR Journal in the lead-up to the archiepiscopal election of the Diocese of Sydney in 2021. Thus the context is prior to the successful election of Abp Kanishka Raffel and needs to be understood in that chronological…

The Importance of the Gospel

Where would you be without the gospel? I shudder to think of where my life would have headed without it, and it horrifies me to hypothesise about a future without it.  Wonderfully, I am not weighed down by such thoughts. For I love to remember when…

Marriage has always been…?

A Short History of Christian Marriage [1] The following was first published as part of the Diocese of Sydney submission to the recent Appellate Tribunal. The purpose of this paper is to provide a short account of the development of marriage within…

Lady Jane Grey: A Firm Faith

The following is an excerpt from a short biography written by Mark Earngey. Complementary copies are to be delivered to Sydney Anglican rectors as a Christmas gift from the ACR. If others would like to order copies please email editor@australianchurchrecord.net…

Not I, But Christ

A remarkable revolution takes place when a person is converted. I will never tire of reflecting upon the conversion of Saul of Tarsus that day on Straight Street in Damascus. After he met the Lord Jesus Christ, the activistic antagonist had atonement…