Myths dispelled by a report on King-Hit-Deaths in Australia – 91 since 2000
Late last year the Sydney Morning Herald published news of a report that was released on the 90 (now 91) king-hit-deaths in Australia since 2000 and the reading is both interesting and illuminating. .
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Joyce Meyer challenges Christians to study, not just read, the Bible
Best-selling author and Christian speaker Joyce Meyer has issued a challenge – she is asking people to consider studying the Bible for thirty minutes a day, for thirty days.
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Australians like the idea of marriage - first time marriages are way high statistically
Late last year the \'Marriage Week Australia\' ministry revealed that the Australian Bureau of Statistics had released the figures relating to Marriage and Divorce for 2012.
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Statistics show Australians likely to lose their lives in simple accidents
Recently a News.com article revealed that statistically Australians are likely to lose their lives in simple accidents, and many of them around the home.
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Mish-mash of locomotive liveries - just awful
1952 was a wonderful year for Queensland Railways when the very first mainline diesel electric locomotive came on stream, the gleaming blue and white 1100 class hood designed monster of the rail followed not long after by the streamline designed 1200 Class.
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A mission web site when you don't have a web site - in the first person
The one thing that Christian Missions with access to the Internet have right across the world, is a web site. One question faced by all Christian Missions, is – what should you, on the one hand, include, and on the other, should not include, on a mission web site?
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Chaplaincy to the RAAF
What does ministry to our Australian Defence personnel look like? What does a RAAF Chaplain do?
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Rick Warren working to end stigma around mental health
Pastor Rick and Kay Warren of Saddleback Church, the Most Reverend Kevin Vann, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness-Orange County (NAMI-OC) are joining together to host The Gathering on Mental Health and the Church on March 28 at Saddleback Church in Southern California.
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Australia's inevitable bushfires – 'get out now' !
The October bushfires throughout New South Wales have been deemed the worst for at least fifty years, at least since the late 60s. Hundreds of homes were destroyed, but the loss of life was minimal. The question is, "Why was this so different from past experiences?"
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Small rural centre is major beneficiary
Well-Being Australia has developed a number of community projects in the Carlisle Coast region of the mainland Whitsundays coast line (Midge Point, Laguna Quays, Bloomsbury) over the past year and in 2014 it is being expanded to two additional projects.
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30 Most Common difficult questions – a book on its way from Rowland Croucher
The Pastor's Pastor the Reverend Dr Rowland Croucher has set aside time in this new year to write a book on \'30 most difficult questions I\'ve been asked in 25,000 hours of pastoral counselling...\'
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The secular media runs with the story!
A friend who I went to school with, and a prominent member of the Sex Party and a number of other Eros type organisations, last December sent me an Email, questioning why I and other church leaders had not been, in his view, prominent in denouncing the sex crimes within the Church (by this he particularly meant the Catholics and Anglicans).
