Wounded in Our Midst

We’re singing “How Great Thou Art”—the joy of being able to sing together as a church gathering has not yet worn off. My husband is standing beside me with our eldest beside him. I find myself wondering, “how is our eldest experiencing this?” I try to put myself in his shoes while our voices join with those around us singing “… then sings my soul, my Saviour God to Thee, How great Thou art, how great Thou art … ” I wonder if how he is feeling is far from how he appears. He mostly looks the same as other...

Anon

Review: Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Al Stewart

Leading like Nehemiah: Can we read Nehemiah like Driscoll Did?

Timothy Escott

Review: Something’s Not Right by Wade Mullen

David Ould

Responding to Family Violence – The Anglican Example

Sandy Grant • Murray Campbell

Facing Up to Domestic and Family Violence

Akos Balogh

Last Month was Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month. To help us and our readers understand it better, TGCA CEO Akos Balogh spoke with Dr Rebecca Sng; founder and Director of The Peregrine Centre. Dr Sng is a clinical psychologist and clinical family therapist who holds an MBA in Social Impact from UNSW. TGCA: You work with survivors of Domestic and Family Violence (DFV). Who is most at risk from DFV? Domestic and Family Violence can happen to anyone, across all socioeconomic classes, ethnicities and professions. As many people would know, women and children are the most common DFV victims....

Facing Up to Domestic and Family Violence

Akos Balogh

Guarding the Flock

Martin Shadwick

The last ten years have shown it is possible to be a Christian preacher with global influence, to have authored widely read books, to head an internationally recognized ministry, to be a household name among evangelicals, to be a leader of leaders—and yet to be a sexual predator or a narcissistic bully. Or perhaps both. The offences have been diabolical, the falls precipitous, the harm incalculable. It is possible to be a Christian preacher with global influence … and yet to be a sexual predator or a narcissistic bully. Jesus warns us of false prophets garbed as sheep. Paul similarly...

Guarding the Flock

Martin Shadwick

A Father’s Letter To His Daughter (About Living In a World That Degrades Women)

Akos Balogh

Dear Ava*, Part of me wishes I didn’t have to write this letter. If we’re to live well as followers of Christ Jesus, we need to face up to the world as it is, not as we wish it would be. You see, I wish we lived in a world where all men treated all women with dignity and respect, at all times. Alas, that’s not our world—at least not yet. While there is much good, beauty and truth in our world, we both know that it’s far from perfect. And so, if we’re to live well as followers of...

A Father’s Letter To His Daughter (About Living In a World That Degrades Women)

Akos Balogh

The Missing Word

Kara Hartley

This Monday (March 8th) is International Women’s Day. There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the treatment of women, particularly in the area of domestic violence and in the last weeks in relation to sexual assault at Parliament House. If these accounts weren’t distressing enough, students from private girls schools in Sydney have spoken up regarding the treatment they receive from male students from neighbouring schools. Some of the schools named are Anglican schools, and while not dismissing the horror of these reports this kind of behaviour tragically isn’t limited to them. The question many have been asking is...