Entries by Jodie McNeill

Division Over Unions

For the first time in five years, the national body of the Anglican Church of Australia met this week to discuss many matters, including its teaching about marriage. In this first gathering since the marriage plebiscite in 2017, the members of this so-called ‘General Synod’ were asked to agree to a statement that simply reaffirmed […]

Who rules really?

If you didn’t know better, you’d think that the destruction of Jerusalem and the imprisonment of her leaders was sign of God’s failure. Because when God’s people suffer at the hands of an enemy king, it looks like God is weak, unloving or perhaps just an imaginary being. Yet everything that happened was according to […]

A Kyck for Christ at Katoomba

Last weekend, 30 youth and leaders from Jamberoo Anglican headed up to the Blue Mountains to attend KYCK, a conference for high schoolers. From Friday night until Sunday lunchtime, we gathered together with over 2000 other young Christians. We ‘enjoyed’ the famous Blue Mountains cold and rain for the purpose of meeting together with youth […]

Facing the Future

How confident are you about the future? There are so many unknowns right now, aren’t there? At a time of escalating war in Europe, and an ongoing global pandemic, it’s harder and harder to make plans about anything. Sometimes it’s hard to be confident in the future when there’s so much uncertainty, but there’s actually […]