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The devil inside ...

For 70 years, Anglican and Presbyterian Church leaders have been battling a 'cult-like church-within-a-church. "In the end, I was told I had 'a demonic spirit of manipulation and control inherited from a great aunt who was the founder of a well-known Christian mission." And so Philippa Thorn, a life-long church-goer and mother of four, was cast aside from the 'Fellowship group she had belonged to for 40 years.

God brought me here

St Matthews, Manly is the 'church of the open door. The policy saved John Nicholls, who was planning to end his life until he was spotted by an old friend at the door of the church who invited him in.

Fractured Families: the story of a Melbourne church cult

Fractured Families gives an assessment of a group called 'the Fellowship which is mainly based in Melbourne. It had its origins in an intense spiritual movement in the Sydney University Evangelical Union in the 1930s and 40s.

Contentment make-over at MAC conference

Can a single weekend away teach you the secret of contentment? Close to 340 women assembled at Stanwell Tops to see how the Mary Andrews College Conference could bring focus to what can be a fuzzy yearning.

He’ll be only 19

Ian Thuaux will be celebrating his 19th birthday in unusual circumstances for a Sydney teenager, following a sincere desire to do short-term mission to the other side of the world.

What I know about all that jazz

James Morrison is regarded as Australias best known jazz musician. Besides the trumpet, the multi-instrumentalist plays trombone, euphonium, flugel horn, tuba, saxophones, and piano. Morrison tells Joseph Smith that his introduction to the genre was through what he calls 'gospel jazz...

Billy Graham and the last crusade

Legendary evangelist Billy Graham has just completed what is likely to be his last evangelistic crusade "“ but the echo of his voice is still being heard down under.

Don demands a reason for belief

An internationally renowned Oxford don has defended his theory that the resurrection of Jesus is 97 per cent likely before a critical university audience.

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