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By: Clare Bruce
There’s a common misconception about youth homelessness. It goes something like this: ‘Teenagers have no excuse for being homeless, they have perfectly good homes and parents who can look after them, they are probably just avoiding rules and chores’. Continue reading “Youth Homelessness Matters. Meet Simon, One of the Thousands of Reasons Why”
By: Graham McDonald
In 1909, a couple named John and Sonora Dodd attended the Mother’s Day service at their church in Spokane, Washington, USA. Continue reading “Did You Know? The Christian-Inspired Origins of Father’s Day”
The bell had just rung for the end of recess. Children were heading back to their classrooms, and Year 1 teacher Mrs Boonen was preparing to return to hers when she noticed one of her students stumbling across the playground towards her, fists clenched, rubbing her eyes, sobbing. Mrs Boonen crouched to the ground and extended her arms to Amelia, and the six-year-old rushed into her teacher’s embrace. Continue reading “Learn How to Develop Emotional Intelligence”
By: Laura Bennett
Traditions are a fickle thing. A lot of us have them but can’t always remember where they came from. We like to protect them, but can be really disconnected from their origin. Continue reading “SRE & Australia: Are We a Good Match?”
By: Susan Joy
A smooth, thick and mildly spiced soup with a little crunch from pieces of pecans scattered through. Add a dollop of natural coconut yoghurt and a sprig of coriander to dress up your soup. Continue reading “Spiced Sweet Potato Soup with Pecans”
By: Anne Rinaudo
Apology has been in the news recently – mainly for all the wrong reasons. There has been Elon Musk to a Thai based diver, the Thai Wild Boars soccer team assistant coach to parents for getting trapped in a cave, Craig Kelly, MP, to the father of three children who died on the MH17 flight. Continue reading “That’s not an Apology, This is an Apology; A Christian Apology”
Above: Asylum seekers flee their homeland by boat, captured in the documentary ‘Human Flow’.
By: Clare Bruce
“The world is shrinking, and people from different religions, different cultures, are going to have to learn to live with each other.” Continue reading “‘Human Flow’ – The Profound Film That’s Set to Change Hearts and Minds on Refugees”
By: Susan Browning
Worship can’t exist without relationship – when you love something or someone you spend time with them, when you adore someone you lavish love on them. Worship simply means to place value or worth on something or someone. Ways we place worth-ship on someone is through compliments, praise, adoration, affirmation. We can only feel all those things through knowing someone, we can only know someone if we spend time in their presence. Continue reading “Worship and Relationship”
By: Laura Bennett
Curiosity is something to be encouraged in our kids, but when they start to ask curly questions about life, faith, and why you make them set the table how do you handle it? Continue reading “Handling the Conversations with Your Kids that Matter Most”
By: Susan Joy
These flavoursome meatballs sit in a creamy leek and mushroom sauce. I like to make the meatballs into quite small balls so they are immersed well into the sauce. Continue reading “Meatballs with Leek & Mushroom Creamy Sauce”