Loving the Rainbow: Christians and the Plebiscite
I have always loved rainbows. Singing along to “I can see a rainbow” on PlaySchool when I was a child and now with my children, reminds me of the beauty and brilliance of a rainbow- all the colours, combining to create a wonderful display of creation and of a creative...
On Floods and Free-Speech
A few weeks ago, we experienced catastrophic floods in my local neck of the woods. Lismore, a town about 15 minutes away from me saw flood water rush through, devastating business and destroying homes, making international news. One news channel reported that more...
Pray for Paris? To Whom Exactly?
Facebook is full of it. Youtube has changed for it. Everywhere and everyone is standing for Paris. In the wake of the enormous tragedy in Paris and also the less publicised Beirut, people are showing their support by praying for Paris. In the face of our mortality and...
Excuse Me Sir, But I Have An Opinion: 7 Principles for Voicing Our Opinion
We live in the age of the opinion. We like, we dislike, we comment, we tweet, we express our opinions. Social media, more than ever, has encouraged this with the reduced need for person-to-person or face-to-face contact to communicate. While I am an avid user of...
Confessions of a Christian Facebook Junky
My husband hates Facebook. He always has and probably always will. As an I.T. teacher, always keen on the latest technology, it was a surprise initially that he would so strongly be against something technological. After all, we first started dating through MSN (too...01. WELCOME
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