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AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * SOUTH KOREAN AID WORKERS TAKEN BY TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN * ANGER AT HOMOSEXUAL BOOK TARGETED AT 5 YEAR OLDS * RELIGIOUS TENSION IN THE WORKPLACE ON THE RISE * DESCENDANT OF MOHAMMED CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY * PARENTS, TEACHERS, SIBLINGS, LOCAL RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND JESUS ROLE MODEL FOR MOST TEENS * […]
Pray for the world
Prayer Focus Update August 2007 Issue 130 PRAYER FOCUS UPDATE is a monthly information bulletin with up-to-date news on the persecuted Church to help Christians pray for their suffering brothers and sisters. You can use this for prayer groups, your own information and for inclusion in church magazines. It can be sent via email, is […]
Shane Claiborne
Come now & join the feast From the greatest to the very least Come now & join the feast Right here in the belly of the beast. Patriots you can bring your flags, We’ll be washing feet and will need some rags… — Shane Claiborne I was privileged recently (29/7/2007) to hear Shane speak at […]
Christianity Gave Women Freedom and Dignity
By Alvin J. Schmidt, Ph.D. HOLLYWOOD, CA — What would be the status of women be in the Western world today had God not entered the world in the flesh of his Son Jesus Christ? One way to answer this question is to look at the low status women still have in Islamic countries. In […]
Harry welcomed into church
Michelle Pauli Thursday August 2, 2007 Guardian Unlimited It’s been a couple of weeks since the record-breaking publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and while most of the familiar elements – midnight queues, speed-reading reviewers, claims that JK Rowling can’t write for toffee – were present and correct, one thing seemed to be […]
Redneck Computer Terms
A list of redneck computer terms Backup – What you do when you sight a skunk in the woods. Bar code – Them’s the fight’n rules down da local tavern. Bug – The reason you is a giv’n for calling in sick. Byte – What yer pit bull dun to cusin Jethro. Cache – Needed […]
Review: Pope Benedict’s Apostolic Exhortation and Encyclical Letter
Review: Pope Benedict’s Apostolic Exhortation (Sacramentum Caritatis: The Sacrament of Love, 143 pp., 2007) and Encyclical Letter (Deus Caritas Est: On Christian Love, 71pp., 2006), St Paul’s Publications, Strathfield, NSW. These two booklets are pocket/purse-sized, and intended for the faithful’s slow meditative reading. My first response has to be to the titles: Christian love/charity is […]
Saying Goodbye
Bringing healthy closure to significant relationships Saying ‘goodbye’ to people you love and have shared life and ministry with is a difficult task. Depending on the circumstances of leaving, it is filled with conflicting emotions, some positive and some negative. It is easy in these situations to think that the best thing to do is […]
Good Old Country Faith
Good Old Country Faith 12 principles for effective ministry in rural parishes Rural ministry has a real attraction: Idyllic settings, close caring communities, unhurried lifestyle. Yet these very advantages have their costs. Isolation, lack of resources, complex relationships. Rural ministry takes place within a culture surprisingly removed from the norms of urban life. There are […]
Abortion
Arguments about changing the law on abortion have much in common with earlier arguments about (a) withholding treatment in some cases, such as very premature babies or the elderly with serious diseases or medical complications, and (b) turning off life support machines. In earlier times doctors could be prosecuted for murder if they didn’t do […]
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