Yesterday I wrote about The Pulse, magazine of the New South Wales Presbyterian Church. Chris Balzer was installed as the Moderator (Chairman) of the NSW Assembly (Annual Meeting). The installation takes place during the commencement service of the Assembly. Customarily the Moderator preaches. Balzer is a fine mind with a very direct and incisive manner …

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Presbyterian Pulse is the magazine of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in New South Wales. In addition to a national journal (Australian Presbyterian), the three eastern mainland states each publish their own magazine/newsletter. Victoria used to publish a newspaper style and then moved to the magazine sized ‘Fellow Workers’. Queensland has published ‘New Directions’ for …

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The July edition of Australian Presbyterian has a somewhat obscure choice for its cover feature. J. Gresham Machen was a US Presbyterian from the first half of the 20th century. He was probably the last great Princeton Presbyterian theologian. Carl Trueman is interviewed while Peter Barnes and D.G. Hart (who has written a Machen biography) …

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