Road infrastructure has innumerable fights on its hands
The claim of Prime Minister Tony Abbott to be known as the infrastructure Prime Minister will be fought tooth and nail all the way to the when the proverbial cheques get handed over. .
-
Sydney Christian radio station Hope 103.2 sets new world record
Sydney Christian radio station Hope 103.2 has broken the world record for the most people singing live on a radio broadcast.
-
The new niche – women as major bread winners and others choosing to be stay-at-home mums
There has been a rash of recent articles promoting women as the new bread winner and on the other hand, why \'stay-at-home\' mums are the new exhilarating niche of the well-to-do and as a matter of choice.
-
The heartache of caring too much for the local church
Some years ago I wrote in this column that the Barna Group, a Christian faith and life survey organisation based in the USA, identified three quite specific areas of behaviour that turns people off Christianity.
-
The Anne Frank story has so much to instruct us all
Four years ago Miep Gies died aged 100 and she is remembered for she was the (then) young woman who helped the Frank family and friends in hiding for – not two weeks – not two months – but two long years from 1942 to 1944.
-
Some of our vehicles are a must regardless
Any one of us would have to have been in a cave somewhere not to have seen the television Jeep adverts and the various other motor vehicle promotions many of them targeting prospective young women car owners.
-
Is it really? Not what you wear !
A recent News.com article by Angela Mollard questions whether girls (young women) in skimpy and alluring outfits should be held in any way responsible for what may happen in any manner of circumstances.
-
Refusing to profit from destroying the earth: Ministers and lay people arrested
Four people including three ministers were arrested during a peaceful protest against the development of a new open-cut coal mine in the Leard State Forest, northern NSW.
-
Dr Joseph Parker – An un-tempted preacher or an un-tried one both fail the test
Recently I was reading \'Dr Joseph Parker\', one of the recognised great English preachers of the second half of the 1800s in London. One fascinating comment he made when relating to ministers was as follows: "An un-tempted minister will never do us any good, and an untried one will talk over our heads."
-
Education a Teacher and the Christian Connection
A most unlikely man was engaged in education in the early days of Australian schooling. Even more unlikely is the fact that he said he went into teaching because 'God spoke' to him.
-
The scent of prosperity is the life blood of affluence: What of a theology?
Since 2010 a great deal has been written theologically on philosophically on the nature of the prosperity doctrine in both the secular commercial world and the Christian movement that embraces such a theology.
-
No better literature than the Bible
There is a growing chorus of professionals who are on the same hymn sheet (as it were) that there is no better literature than the Bible and moreover the 1611 King James Version is the language and rhythm-matic metre of Shakespeare who wrote in the same century.
