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‘God Wants You To Love Me’ (Sexual Abuse In The Anglican Church)
After a four-month investigation, Antony Barnett reveals that the Anglican Church is to be hit by a new scandal, as women tell of rape and abuse by priests who practised ‘sexual healing’ Sunday July 20, 2003 The Observer Sonya Brown was sexually abused by her father as a child. She started getting flashbacks three years […]
A Prayer For Children
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 557 (Author unknown) Loving God, We pray for our children who put chocolate fingers everywhere, who like to be tickled, who stomp in puddles, who sneak popsicles before supper, who make mistakes in math homework, who can never find their shoes. And we pray for those who stare at photographers from behind […]
Happily Married
Reading a copy of a magazine produced by a chain of pharmacies a netfriend noticed this: “In a study of 10,641 adults taken from the 1996 national survey of mental health in Australia, researchers at Melbourne’s La Trobe University found both men and women are happier if they are married, debunking the 1970s theory that […]
Thirteen Ways To Recognize The Adult Child
Insights Based On Janet Geringer Woititz’s Original Listing Rev. Wayne Dobratz, M. Div.and Thomas F. Fischer, M.Div., M.S.A. Number 53 What are some characteristics of adults who have been raised as children in an environment of alcoholism (“Adult Children Of Alchoholics” or “ACOA’s”)? What are some characteristics of those adults raised in abusive or other […]
A Prayer For Children
Author unknown. Loving God, We pray for our children who put chocolate fingers everywhere, who like to be tickled, who stomp in puddles, who sneak popsicles before supper, who make mistakes in math homework, who can never find their shoes. And we pray for those who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire, who can’t […]
Mentoring Women ~ Relating To Your Husband And The Fix
Welcome to our Mentoring Site! Mentoring ~ Woman to Woman http://www.womantowoman.us Healing Hearts – Repairing Homes – Embracing Femininity In this issue: Relating to Your Husband and “The Fix” How you related (or didn’t relate) to your dad has set you up to how you relate (or don’t/won’t relate) to your husband. The patterns of […]
A Better Future For Our Kids?
Dear Friends, I bring a matter to you for earnest reflection. In May, the Federal ALP initiated a child protection Bill for Parliament’s consideration. This Bill, similar to that enacted by Queensland Parliament in 2000, concerns the establishment of a Children’s Commission for the above purpose. As Bill Muehlenberg points out in his assessment below, […]
Thinking About Thinking! Pt.3
LET’S ALL THINK OUR OWN THOUGHTS! Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me…for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these”. St.Paul wrote, ‘ (But) when I was a child, …I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put childish ways behind me’. Mark […]
Thinking About Thinking! Pt.2
Jesus (said), “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with your entire mind”. Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and mutual edification. Matthew 22:37, Romans 14:19. C.B.Keogh began a twelve step recovery program back in 1956 called “GROW”, which is for […]
Learning To Listen
We all know what it’s like to get that phone call in the middle of the night. This night was no different. Jerking up to the ringing summons, I focused on the red, illuminated numbers of my clock. Midnight. Panicky thoughts filled my sleep-dazed mind as I grabbed the receiver. “Hello?” My heart pounded, I […]
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