Anglican Church League 2026 Annual General Meeting — Thursday 18 June
Posted on May 16, 2026
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The ACL gives notice and warmly invites our members to attend the 2026 Annual General Meeting. Click for details. Read more
A Biblical guide to giving your Testimony
Posted on June 7, 2026
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“When the apostle Paul tells his own story, he doesn’t focus on how bad he was before Christ. He emphasises Jesus.
That instinct runs counter to much of what passes for testimony-giving today, where the drama of a former life tends to take centre stage and the gospel itself gets relegated to a supporting role. The personal story matters, but it is the garnish, not the main course.
The focus of any testimony ought to be the person and work of Jesus: who he is and what he came to do. …”
– Very helpful reminder from Jordan Thyer at The Gospel Coalition Australia.
The Biggest Tell that something was written by AI
Posted on June 7, 2026
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From an essay by Eve Fairbanks in The Atlantic,
“We tend to believe that efficiency is the highest virtue, the four-hour workweek the ultimate goal. Why sweat over the introductory paragraph of an essay if an AI program can sail over whatever argumentative obstacle you have in the space of 15 seconds? But the effort and the hang-ups are, as they say, a feature of the human thought process, not a bug. …”
– Read it all (link thanks to Tim Challies). How might it apply to sermons?
A related topic:
Before You Use AI, Read Ecclesiastes – Darin White at The Gospel Coalition.
“Young people will need to know how to use AI at a high level. But even more, they’ll need to be able to use it without being mastered by it. As Christian leaders, we don’t have the luxury of ignoring this moment. The generation sitting in our pews, at our dinner tables, and in our classrooms right now is learning to trust machines with the decisions that require the wisdom only God can give. …”
GAFCON Sunday – 28 June 2026
Posted on June 6, 2026
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News from Gafcon –
“At Abuja this past March, 347 Anglican bishops, 121 lay and clerical leaders from 27 provinces gathered under the Word of God — to confer, to celebrate, and to reaffirm that the Global Anglican Communion is founded on the person and work of Jesus Christ and the authority of his word.
GAFCON Sunday, 28 June 2026, is an opportunity to stand with us — to pray and give generously as we work to keep the Bible at the heart of a truly Global Anglican Communion.
Bishop John Guernsey, Chair of the GAFCON Trustees, shares a word about this moment and what your participation means.
More voices are coming soon — including messages from our Global Anglican Council Chairman, Archbishop Laurent Mbanda, our General Secretary Bishop Paul Donison, and others.
Three Ways to Participate on 28 June 2026:
Pray — Join believers around the world in lifting up the Global Anglican Communion. Pray for our Archbishops, Bishops, clergy, congregations, especially those in hostile contexts.
Share — Tell your diocese, congregation, small group, and network about GAFCON Sunday. The strength of this movement is the breadth of its fellowship.
Give — Make a generous gift to support the ministry of GAFCON. Every dollar given sustains faithful Anglican witness — in theological education, frontline mission, and the next generation of orthodox leaders.
There is much work to do as we support the tens of millions of biblically faithful Anglicans around the world. We need your help. So please give, give generously, and give cheerfully (2 Corinthians 9:7).”
Moore College Principal to retire at end of 2027
Posted on June 5, 2026
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Announcement from SydneyAnglicans.net –
“The Principal of Moore College, Dr Mark Thompson, has announced he will retire at the end of 2027.
The announcement was made at Moore College on Friday, June 5, as Dr Thompson told staff and students.
‘After discussions with the Archbishop and the Governing Board, we have decided that 2027 will be the last year that I serve as the 13th Principal of Moore College,’ Dr Thompson said. ‘No doubt there will be much more that will be said and written over the next eighteen months. But I wanted to let you know at this point, so that you won’t be surprised when advertisements for the position begin to appear in the second half of this year, and so that you might pray as the process of choosing the 14th Principal unfolds.’…”
– Read it all here. It would be really good to pray for Mark and Kathryn, for the College, and for whoever will be appointed the 14th Principal.
Also announced through the College website:
Help for Nyngan?
Posted on June 5, 2026
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From the Diocese of Bathurst Facebook page:
“Friends, Nyngan currently has no Sunday services, as they have no clergy and no licenced lay minister. We struggle to know how to help such churches. Would you be up for a chat about helping?”
Moore College revamps their website
Posted on June 5, 2026
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Moore Theological College has revamped their website.
Anglican Heroes: Hannah More — Church Society podcast
Posted on June 4, 2026
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From Church Society –
“Ros Clarke speaks to Sarah Allen about another Anglican hero, Hannah More.
Hannah was born in the 1740s, and was converted from a successful playwriting and intellectual career to give her life to working for charity.”
– Listen here.
The ‘senior pastor loneliness problem’ – with Sheridan Voysey
Posted on June 4, 2026
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An important topic from The Pastor’s Heart –
“The loneliest person in church may be the one standing at the pulpit.
Pastors spend their lives surrounded by people, but ministry can make real friendship strangely difficult.
Confidentiality, responsibility, expectations, perceived favouritism and the pressure to “have answers but not needs” can leave church leaders profoundly alone.
Sheridan Voysey says pastors don’t just need supervision, systems or resilience strategies. They need real friends: people they can talk to, depend on, grow with and enjoy. People who know the weight they are carrying. People they can call at 2am when everything has gone wrong.
Sheridan helps us think pastorally and practically about the lonely pastor, the friendship Jesus modelled and how churches can give leaders permission to be human.”
– Watch here.
Macca’s long and winding road
Posted on June 3, 2026
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“In a nation in the midst of a social disaster, an 83-old-year British pop star of whose moral influence any sensible person should strongly disapprove has created a masterpiece.
It was a strange experience for a conservative Christian like me to listen to Paul McCartney’s latest album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. He was one of the evangelists for the permissive society in the 1960s…”
– At TCW, Julian Mann shares some interesting refections on Paul McCartney’s journey. Maybe not to Christ (though you might pray about that), but disillusionment with where he’s been.
Let the Word Dwell Richly — by Tony Payne
Posted on June 3, 2026
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“I doubt I’ll read a better book this year. Tony Payne has taken decades to study, reflect, practice and write this book. …
Let the Word Dwell Richly is a gift to pastors and churches that I pray is widely read. May the Reformational recovery of the ministry of God’s word in our lives and churches continue, and may this book be used to help it.”
– Mark Dever, Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church.
This forthcoming book from Matthias Media – Let the Word Dwell Richly by Tony Payne, sounds well worth pre-ordering. Expected to be available in July.
Other commendations come from Peter Jensen and Lionel Windsor.
As an aside, Mark Dever does read a few books – see this Banner of Truth interview from 2024.
Contentment in Practice — Avoiding marriolatry
Posted on June 2, 2026
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From Phillip Jensen –
“For many years, Christians have been teaching on marriage and family life. But recently, the focus has moved somewhat towards singleness. This is in part because of our society’s movement away from marriage towards singleness, which is itself somewhat due to an attempt to correct an overemphasis on marriage.
This week in Two Ways News, we are discussing the issue of singleness not for either of those reasons, but because of Paul’s dealing with the subject in 1 Corinthians 7:25-40. So, following on from Paul’s discussion of contentment, we address the issues around whether we should marry and the consequences that flow from it.”
– Hear Phillip and Peter Jensen discuss at Two Ways News.
Also see –
Is prophecy dead? Where have all the prophets gone?
Amos said he was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, and yet he was one of God’s prophets in Israel. Do we have prophets and prophecy today? Should we all prophesy or is it the task of some of us?
The issues around prophecy are many and varied; this King’s Birthday Conference will look particularly at a Biblical view of prophecy today.
– Less than a week away. Register at this link.
Two to remember
Posted on June 1, 2026
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“It was 1856, and the new Reformed Evangelical bishop, Frederic Barker, had arrived in Sydney with his wife Jane the year before.
The bishop was responsible for most of NSW – a huge burden. He and his wife immediately saw three great needs and took action to meet them.…”
– At SydneyAnglicans.net, Peter Jensen commends a soon-to-be-published book on Bishop Barker by Dr. Grant Maple.
He reminds us that it is “so easy to forget our history and that impoverishes us”.
Spreading God’s word, literally
Posted on May 31, 2026
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“Sam Freney, the translation consultant for Bible Society Australia, gave a demonstration of how hard it is for those without a Bible in their heart language, at a recent supporters’ lunch. He began with reading this in Pitjanjatjara:…”
– A vital endeavour. Story via John Sandeman at The Other Cheek.
Also see this excellent Bible Society video which features Nungalinya College in Darwin. From this Bible Society page –
2026 Annual Moore College Lectures with Andrew Atherstone
Posted on May 30, 2026
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Andrew Atherstone, Professor of Modern Anglicanism at Oxford University, is giving this year’s Moore College Annual Lectures.
His topic: Anglican evangelicalism in the age of John Stott, Jim Packer and Dick Lucas: Surviving and thriving in a mixed-up denomination.
When: Monday 3 to Friday 7 August 2026.
Cruising
Posted on May 29, 2026
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From David Cook at The Expository Preaching Trust –
“Maxine (my wife) and I have just taken a cruise from NZ to Australia.
We met up with our son and his family, who live in LA, as they were attending a family wedding in Rotorua and we caught a ship back to Sydney from Auckland.
Our ship, the Norwegian Spirit, was cyclone affected so that we had to be rerouted to avoid the worst of the seas.
However we did face 4 days in the Tasman sea and though my forebears were seamen I did not inherit their sea legs.
Being on a cruise ship in the middle of rough seas is a bit like hell; there is no escape; there is nowhere to go that is not rocking and rolling.
Our ship stopped in Melbourne on a Sunday so we caught a tram from the wharf into the city. …”
– David shares, among other things, the tragedy of what he didn’t find at a key location in Melbourne.
Photo: Billboard outside St Paul’s Cathedral in October 2024.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…