Evangelism and Mission

Belief in an Age of Unbelief – responding to the “New Atheism”

by Peter Corney (Delivered at SHAC Commnity on 14th March 2010) This weekend Melbourne has hosted an internationally publicized conference entitled “The ...

Is the scream of the 20th century echoing in the 21st?

By Peter Corney Summary: Artists, writers, film makers and playwrights in the 20th C often reflected in their work a sense ...

Faith and Reason – Adversaries or Partners

By Peter Corney The French Revolution in the late 18th Century began France’s great secular experiment. The age of Reason had ...

The Anglican Church in Australia

Anglican Principles in a changing culture

by Peter Corney
(This article originally appeared in Essentials: The Journal of EFAC* it has recently been revised 11/09)
We are living in a time of enormous and rapid change at every level of our lives. Hugh Mackay in his book Re-inventing Australia describes it as the Age of Redefinition. The church is not immune to this [...]

The Church in Australia

The decline in the Australian Protestant Church – How we got to where we are.

By Peter Corney
The main stream Protestant churches in Australia are in serious decline and have been for some time. To give but one example: attendance at worship on an average Sunday in the Anglican Church in Melbourne has dropped from an estimated 50,000 in 1981 to 21,000 in 2006. How did we get to this [...]

Christ and Culture

Leadership in Uncertain Times – what does the future hold for us?

By Peter Corney
(This was originally delivered as an address to the teaching staff chapel service at Trinity Grammar School Kew in Melbourne in 2010)
During the American civil war and the battle to emancipate the slaves, the then U.S President Abraham Lincoln said he “often felt like a man standing on a burning platform.”
Many [...]