Sandy Grant
Sandy is the senior minister at St Michael's Anglican Cathedral in Wollongong. He is married to Karyn with three daughters. Prior to entering full-time ministry, his only other job has been in a bottle shop! Sandy enjoys reading theology, biography and crime fiction. Follow him at Twitter via @SandmanGrant.
Down-under round-up: 8 July 2015
- Sandy Grant •
- 8 July 2015
A collection of things worth reading from around the web in the last week.
Redefining marriage
- Tony Payne •
- 1 July 2015
Amidst all the sound and fury about same-sex marriage, it’s often hard to find a straight-forward, clear, thoughtful Christian defence of what marriage is. Sandy Grant has had a crack, and a very good one, in this recent public lecture at St Michael’s Wollongong.
Down-under round-up, 24 June 2015
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- 24 June 2015
Charleston, forgiveness and safety, the idolatry of guns, making disciples, serving in your local church without going under, the conversion of the wallet, the Proverbs 31 man, how the church can help gay young people, how to be a welcoming and biblical church, and the GoThereFor 2.0 launch.
Down-under round-up: 17 June 2015
- Sandy Grant •
- 17 June 2015
This isn’t what everyone is talking about, and I’m a little late to the read myself, but this is an essential article for discussion amongst ministry or eldership teams. Pastors, find someone to talk it over with, please: The pattern among fallen pastors by Garrett Kell.
Down-under round-up: 10 June 2015
- Sandy Grant •
- 10 June 2015
I’m reversing the order this week, since ‘for better or worse’ the issue of last week won’t go away, but tends to take the spotlight off our positive gospel work.
Down-under round-up: 3 June 2015
- Sandy Grant •
- 3 June 2015
Issue of the week As I said last week, the Australian marriage debate has heated up, with legislation for same-sex marriage introduced into Federal Parliament. Among the stack of articles published by Christians here and abroad, here’s my pick. Firstly, 'Six initial thoughts on the gay marriage debate’, by Nigel
On good and bad evangelism
- Sandy Grant •
- 1 June 2015
‘Proselytism’ is on the nose in our allegedly tolerant world, increasingly proscribed or restricted by law or administrative policy. Mostly the word is left undefined, open to great subjectivity. Some think of it merely as seeking to persuade others of the merits of a religion, with a view to
Down-under round-up: 27 May 2015
- Sandy Grant •
- 27 May 2015
Issue of the week Neil Foster, Associate Professor of Law at Newcastle University, continues updating us on Schools, Scripture, Banning of Books and Sexual Orthodoxy, examining the merits of the objections stated to the now-marginalized Christian views on sex. He argues that “students are entitled to hear points of view at
Down-under round-up: 20 May 2015
- Sandy Grant •
- 20 May 2015
A more concentrated list this week, since I’ve been extra busy… Issue of the week The issue last week was the book banning placed upon NSW SRE (Special Religious Education) in schools. The good news is that the ban has been overturned. This has been an early skirmish in a potentially
Down-under round-up: 13 May 2015
- Sandy Grant •
- 13 May 2015
Issue of the week Book banning is always a worry! It’s so easily used to censor reasonable freedom of speech (which is why Christians should be slow to call for it). The web was set alight in Australia when the NSW Department of Education banned three books from use
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