Church History - Australian Church Record

Why I love the Apostle Paul

March 23, 2021 by Jane Tooher

The apostle Paul has been hated for 2000 years by many men and women, with endless papers, books and talks about how awful he was and how he got things so wrong. But that’s not the whole story. There are also many of us—including many women—who love…

Sydney Diocese’s Unchanged Priority for over Eighty Years

December 1, 2020 by ACR Editorial

“The world’s greatest need is evangelism. With all the earnestness and strength that are in me I urge upon you that fact. I urge it especially upon my brethren of the clergy. Study evangelism; preach evangelism; live evangelism. Let us…

Anglicans and pandemics: 101 years on

April 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, 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 people…

Praying for patience

March 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,…

The opened eyes of Wilberforce

October 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…

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

August 27, 2019August 26, 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.…