Good News Saturday

The Cinema, Lacrosse and the Brutal Truth about Christianity in Australia

Let’s name the brutal truth first: Australian churches have been in more or less unmitigated decline since 1963. As from that date, fewer and fewer people have been involved in our churches, fewer people have been connected to our ministries, and almost every major Christian denomination has had fewer people wanting to own them in the census, even if only to identity the church they no longer attend. There have been bright patches. Theological education in Australia is strong. Student work is a bright spot. There have been revivals in Aboriginal communities in the 1980s and 1990s with substantial and long-lasting...