Church History – Australian Church Record

Anglicans and pandemics: 101 years on

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 by Bronwyn Windsor

This is not the first time that the ACR has seen a pandemic. From 1880, the Church Record, as it was known, reported on all the news relating to the Anglican Church in Australia and New Zealand. So I did a bit of research and trawled through the archives…

Christians and Pandemics through the Ages (260, 1347, 1665,…2020)

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 by Matthew Payne

The ‘coronavirus’ (COVID-19) has put the world into a panic. It is clearly extremely contagious and a significant threat to many lives. Nobody knows how long it will last or what its ultimate effects will be. Amidst the uncertainty, most…

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Praying for patience

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 by Kirsten McKinlay

I first started thinking about patience when I observed (what I perceived as) a lack of it in my husband nearly every time we had to leave the house together. He is a classic ‘doer’; he loves to act and get stuff done and ticked off. I, by contrast,…

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The opened eyes of Wilberforce

October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 by David Ould

The royal assent which was given to the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act on 25 March 1807 represented the fruition of 18 years of persistence for William Wilberforce who introduced his first bill outlawing the slave trade in the British Empire…

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Things I’ve learned along the way: studying D. W. B. Robinson

August 26, 2019August 27, 2019 by Rory Shiner

Introduction In the year 2001, about fifty metres from where we now stand, a young West Australian skipped a Hebrew class to listen to a slightly and elderly man, dressed in bishop’s purple and a clerical collar, teach on the Epistle of James.…

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An Easter reflection from John Stott

April 21, 2019April 23, 2019 by ACR Team

I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he was seen… (1 Cor15:3-5) The Apostle…

ACR Journal Church History Evangelism Ministry

Evangelism and the Sydney Diocese: Our DNA

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018 by Ed Loane

This article was originally published in the ACR’s latest journal, which contains lots of helpful reflections on evangelism. You can access the journal in full here. At the 2017 session of synod a report was given in relation to diocesan…