The big news from the Relations With Other Churches committee is the impending visit of the board of directors of the World Reformed Fellowship to Australia in April 2012. These folk will be guests of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, which has determined to host the visit in Sydney. (sigh. Where else?) The World Reformed …

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Finding something to excerpt from a Harry Reeder blog post continues to prove impossible. Everything is so well written and fits together so tightly. So read this post from his blog, Inperspective, and be challenged and instructed. The seventh paragraph nails it for me. In the inky black darkness of April 14, 1912, The Titanic, …

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This is a brief overview of the annual meeting of the Australian Presbyterian World Mission Committee. Each year representatives of the state churches meet and consider policy issues arising from the operations of working groups which are based in New South Wales (Sydney). So our functional brief is review, advise and endorse our ongoing work …

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Welcome AP magazine. The last meeting of the Presbyterian Church of Australia authorised a smaller body (its Commission) to deal with a report about the future of our national magazine, Australian Presbyterian. Today that Commission met and made the following decisions: The resignation of Peter Hastie, longstanding editor of Australian Presbyterian magazine was formally received. …

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