Category: Articles
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Never Again is Now, or is it?
A group called “Never Again is Now” is calling Christians to rally against rising antisemitism. Here is our pastor’s response to their publicity.
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The Lucky Country
A call to reconciliation and a window into the indigenous experience of racial injustice by Uncle Den Fisher, a member of our congregation and an Aboriginal Heritage Guide at the Botanic Gardens where this video was made.
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Worship Services Moving Online
SYCBaps will move its Sunday worship service online to help minimise physical gatherings during the COVID-19 crisis. As a small boutique church, we think we can do better than just streaming.
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LGBTIQ Christians and Baptist Policy
As a denomination, Victoria’s Baptists are officially opposed to marriage equality, but their official denominational teaching says that churches which fail to offer gracious hospitality to homosexual people need to repent and change.
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Supporting Same-Sex Marriage as a heterosexual, Bible-believing, Baptist Pastor
How can a married, heterosexual, evangelical Christian pastor and theologian support legislative amendment to allow same-sex couples the right to formalise their commitments in the legally-recognised covenant of marriage?
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Baptist World Alliance statement on refugees
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) issues a statement reaffirming its biblical stance concerning refugees, vulnerable people who are often times victimized for their faith.
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Painting the Word
John Sampson reviews the spectacular new edition of “Painting the Word” by Paul Gahan and Nathan Nettleton.
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Send Forgiveness Viral
Yesterday the Word of the Lord was addressed to the Australian public through a faithful Muslim man, Waleed Aly, calling us to “send forgiveness viral”.
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A Gay Pastor Reflects on the Orlando Massacre
The impact of the Orlando massacre on the GLBTQI community cannot be isolated from the long history of hate-fuelled attacks.
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Why I won’t vote my values
Scott Higgins explains that when Christians understand the proper role of government, they may sometimes rightly conclude that they should vote against at least some of their values.
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Would you dare to question who you really are?
This extraordinarily moving 3-minute video asks how much you know about who you really are, and shows how the answers could be fatal to hate-fuelled extremism.
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Why people don’t take Evangelicals seriously anymore
A disturbing but illuminating expose of the evangelical sell-out to right-wing politics, and the disaster this has been for the public image of our churches.
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Transgender People Welcome in the Church
A compassionate and insightful account of some of the issues faced by transgender people in the church, brought to us by the Bible Society.
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Why solving homelessness is stupidly easy
It seems that the practice of grace has proven effective in tackling the homelessness crisis.
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A Big Fleshy Man’s Heart
Cameron, a gay Christian man, shared this extraordinarily powerful poem as his testimony when he was welcomed into the membership of our church, by reaffirmation of his baptismal vows, during the Paschal Vigil.
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Glennys’s Testimony
Glennys was welcomed into the membership of our church, by reaffirmation of her baptismal vows, during the Paschal Vigil. This is the text of the testimony that she shared.
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Francisca’s Testimony
Francisca was welcomed into the membership of our church, by reaffirmation of her baptismal vows, during the Paschal Vigil. This is the text of the testimony that she shared.