Rowland Croucher
Marriage Enrichment: How Much Do You Think You Know About Your Partner?
HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR PARTNER? HOW MANY PAID JOBS DID HE/SHE HAVE BEFORE YOU MET? WHERE WAS HE/SHE BORN? HOW MANY HOMES DID HE/SHE LIVE IN BEFORE YOU MET? WHAT IS HIS/HER FAVOURITE COLOUR? HOW ABOUT HIS/HER MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT AS A KID/TEENAGER? WHAT WAS HIS/HER MOST SERIOUS ILLNESS/ACCIDENT AS […]
Loneliness of the distant farmers wife
Published by jennib at August 3, 2008 RUTH SNELLEMAN Life on a farm doesn’t often allow for visitors. The responsibility of raising children, maintaining a house and hoping for a successful crop leaves women little time for friendships. Most farming houses have one room for visitors. In this one room, the heater is allowed on. […]
Piecing Life Together after Childhood Sexual Abuse
Fragments of Home: by Monique Lisbon (Braidwood Press: Melbourne, 2008) http://www.monomusic.com.au BOOK/CD LAUNCH SPEECH This is a book, but it could have been a thesis. I remember a couple of conversations where the book was re-birthed out of a thesis. This is quite properly because… In a very real sense this is Monique’s story, but […]
Pastoral Demographics in Australia
Better start vicar-nicking as preachers peter out Bernard Salt, Demographer August 14, 2008 I AM concerned for the spiritual well-being of the Australian nation. New figures extracted from the 2006 census show there are 14,800 ministers of religion in Australia, or about one per 1500 residents. Most ministers hover around middle-age, although I am pleased […]
Australian Prayer Network Newsletter
August 13, 2008 * CHARITIES AND CHURCHES COULD FORFEIT TAX CONCESSIONS * MEDICAL PROFESSION DIVIDED OVER CHANGES TO EUTHANASIA LAWS * LESBIANS LOSE COMPO CASE AGAINST IVF DOCTOR ———————————————– CHARITIES AND CHURCHES COULD FORFEIT TAX CONCESSIONS Charities and other non-government organisations could lose billions of dollars’ worth of tax perks as the Rudd Government’s taxation […]
Philippines
Subj: Philippines: Update on Gov-MILF peace deal. PHILIPPINES: UPDATE ON GOV-MILF PEACE DEAL – Supreme Court issues temporary restraining order. – Public hearing slated for Friday 15 August. – MILF unconcerned; says pact is a “done deal”. – Heavy fighting displaces some 160,000 in North Cotabato. On Sunday 27 July representatives from the Government of […]
Terror
(Another from our theologically liberal friend Harry Cook: this sermon is weak on ‘miracle interpretation’ and strong on pastoral psychology. Rowland). The Religion Works Sermons by Harry T. Cook August 10, 2008 To read this week’s sermon “Terror,” just scroll down. Matthew’s story of Jesus walking on the water in the midst of a violent […]
Australian Prayer Network Newsletter
* LEBANON FALLS AMIDST A DEAFENING SILENCE * MIDDLE EAST NUCLEAR CRISIS INTENSIFIES AS CHRISTIANS ARE TARGETED FOR THEIR FAITH * MAJORITY OF CHRISTIANS SAY BUSYNESS HINDERS THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD * CHINA: THE CHRISTIAN COLOSSUS OF THE EAST * BOY TURNS FIVE DOLLARS CHURCH GAVE HIM INTO NEARLY $3000 TO HELP CANCER VICTIM * […]
Time to Move on (Race)
Ethics & Public Policy Essays by Harry T. Cook August 8, 2008 I am pleased to introduce a long-time reader of this web site and its offerings as this weekend’s guest essayist. He is Dewey Barton, M.D. – a clear-thinking public citizen who keeps current on politics and has no patience for shoddy thinking. Harry […]
Azerbaijan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 6 August 2008 AZERBAIJAN: THE STATE COMMITTEE DOESN’T CENSOR – IT “MERELY CHECKS” AND BANS LITERATURE http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1168 Azerbaijan’s State Committee for Work […]
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