Rebecca Abbott

Mar 26, 2024 | eternitynews.com.au | Rebecca Abbott

John SandemanFounder and former editor of Eternity, and creator of The Other Cheek blog“Eternity could have been filled with ‘naughty vicar stories’. But that was never the intent. Instead, out of a conviction that God, being a good God, is doing great things, we could run a mostly good news operation. “Inverting traditional media tropes, we could have missionaries and church planters as the heroes, and instead of writing about a socially constructed reality, we could affirm the Bible.

Mar 25, 2024 | eternitynews.com.au | Rebecca Abbott

I continue to be amazed, daily, by the way that God works, in every place, drawing us to himself, in Christ, even amidst pain and struggle, questions and weariness – perhaps especially then. At the end of 2023, I paused in my frantic gathering of faith stories and I spent time writing a new book titled Every Moment, Everywhere … Australian Faith Stories to Fill Up Your Soul. The book includes 63 of the faith stories, as well as lots of reflections between each one.

Mar 7, 2024 | eternitynews.com.au | Rebecca Abbott |Rachel Reva

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via WhatsApp Share via Email URL copied! Copy link On International Women’s Day (8 March 2024), it’s time to use our voice and remember who God created us to be According to the Global Media Monitoring project, only 27 per cent of experts quoted as sources in mainstream media are women. When I first saw that statistic, my immediate thought was, “I wonder how many of those women speaking to the media are Christian?” It’s a question I have asked myself a...

Mar 7, 2024 | eternitynews.com.au | Rebecca Abbott |Rachel Reva

1. Clare Steele, Compassion Australia CEOClare is the CEO of Compassion Australia. Clare is an experienced executive leader with a strong record across a range of industries in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. “Women and girls make up a larger proportion of those impacted by extreme poverty. International Women’s Day is a chance for us to be able to share [the message] that each woman and girl around the world is created in God’s image and the love that he has for each of them.

Mar 5, 2024 | eternitynews.com.au | Rebecca Abbott |John Sandeman

A major media figure was onto him. And what was the editor of a fledgling Christian paper to do about it? What was a Christian way of telling the story? I decided to try, and in the days when the major deadline for Eternity was when the presses needed to start, I found myself negotiating a statement of repentance with his son, who was pressing the breakfast show on a Christian radio station that morning.