Twice as Vulnerable: What Every Pastor Needs to Know – with Bec Baines

Dominic Steele

Consent, Bodies and Belonging: Ministering to Young People with Disability.

In every church's orbit are young people with intellectual disability, whether in the pews, in youth group, or in a family that stopped coming because it got too hard.

The Australian Disability Royal Commission found people with disability are twice as likely to face abuse and exploitation. Are our churches actually safe, welcoming places?

Accessibility Ministry Advisor at Sydney Anglican Youthworks Bec Baines speaks about consent, capacity, bodies and belonging, and how to disciple young people with intellectual disability.

20% attendance growth in three years – Craig Roberts

20% attendance growth in three years – Craig Roberts

Dominic Steele

Craig Roberts, CEO of Anglican Youthworks and chair of the committee behind the new Sydney Anglican attendance report, says there’s much to thank God for, but there’s also some challenging numbers, as Sydney Anglicans pursue the ambitious goal of 5% annual attendance growth through people coming to faith in Jesus.

Confusion over the Religious Question on the Australian Census

Confusion over the Religious Question on the Australian Census

Dominic Steele

How not to be misled filling in the Religious Question on the Australian Census.

A secular advocacy campaign is targeting Australians who have a loose connection with faith— telling some they should mark “No religion.”

It’s online quiz looks like Census guidance. 

But here’s the problem. It misleadingly substitutes its own test for the question being asked by the Bureau of Statistics. 

Social researcher Mark McCrindle says the Bureau is not trying to measure active engagement but rather affiliation.

How Katoomba shaped a generation of Sydney Evangelicals - Phillip Jensen, David Cook & Al Stewart

How Katoomba shaped a generation of Sydney Evangelicals - Phillip Jensen, David Cook & Al Stewart

Dominic Steele

For a generation of Sydney evangelicals, the Katoomba Christian Conventions weren’t just events in the calendar - they shaped church programs across the city.

In the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, thousands gathered under the circus tent and then later in packed auditoriums to hear the Bible taught, sing with conviction and be raised up for ministry.

But how did Katoomba become such an influence in Sydney evangelicalism? What decisions shaped its extraordinary impact? And what lessons are there for today. 


From corrective to culture setting: leading Australian evangelicalism | with Richard Coekin

From corrective to culture setting: leading Australian evangelicalism | with Richard Coekin

Dominic Steele

The Reach Australia movement has matured into something broader: from a corrective voice into one of the most significant culture-shaping forces in Australian evangelicalism.

Reach Australia has often been heard as a corrective: a push for clearer pathways, better systems, output thinking and more intentional leadership in local churches.

Richard Coekin says that, as an outsider, last week’s conference felt less like the corrective it may have seemed in the past and more like a mature, holistic vision for church leadership: with preaching, spiritual transformation, gospel culture, prayerful dependence and pastoral warmth much more clearly front and centre, while still committed to principled pragmatism and organising churches to reach the lost.

A senior pastor’s tears — and a gospel culture to reach a nation - Richard Leadbeater

A senior pastor’s tears — and a gospel culture to reach a nation - Richard Leadbeater

Dominic Steele

Richard Leadbeater is the senior pastor of the influential Dundonald Church in London. He came to Australia for the Reach Australia Conference — 1450 pastors and leaders from across Australia, the UK, the US, South Africa and New Zealand — and left deeply moved.

Richard says he found himself in tears four times during the week. 

In a The Pastor’s Heart Friday special, Dominic Steele presses into Richard’s pastor’s heart, exploring each of those moments.

Christ’s victory amidst discouragement, criticism, suffering and sin

Christ’s victory amidst discouragement, criticism, suffering and sin

Dominic Steele

Christ’s victory amidst discouragement, criticism, exhaustion, disappointment and sin.

We preach Christ’s victory as pastors. But we battle discouragement, criticism, exhaustion, disappointment and sin.

What does the victory of Christ actually mean for pastors whose ministries feel painfully ordinary?

What does it mean for leaders carrying the slow weight of imperfect churches, spiritual warfare, unanswered prayers and years of costly ministry?

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