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The view through the palms

The view through the palms

The Whitsundays is one of the most idyllic scenes that one could ever want to experience. You can literally look out towards Great Barrier Reef waterways through the palm trees, and see the splendid blue of the water..

  • School Pastoral Care "on the ground"

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson says there have been a range of issues raised by "churchmen" within a variety of Christian denominations wondering "out loud" and in the "public arena" as to whether the Commonwealth funded School Chaplaincy (\'Pastoral Care\') program hits the right mark or even misses it all together.

  • Broadway actor presents KJV Gospel of Luke theatrically in Australia

    Bible Society Australia is bringing Broadway actor Bruce Kuhn to Australia as part of its 400th Anniversary celebration of the King James Bible. He will present \"The Gospel of Luke" from the actual text of the KJV, in language that lends naturally to a Shakespearean stage.

  • Missions are old hands at this...

    In a recent Sydney Morning Herald entitled "A meet-and-eat revolution is brewing at the 'coffice'", Rachel Wells speaks to people who use cafes as temporary office spaces, dubbed \'\'coffices\'\'.

  • Footplate: Padre and the silent yard shunter

    Footplate Padre Mark Tronson wrote in the July issue of On-Track railway e-magazine that one of the worst of situations for a locomotive engineman was the job where your train shunted at every little stop and moreover, at those country town shunting yards, where a shunter was a 'desperate shunter' (he loved it).

  • 'More than Gold' stirs a world wide hornets nest

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson is alarmed at the hornets nest that \'More than Gold\' CEO David Willson has created when he complained to Dan Wooding the founder of Assist News Service (ANS) for his selection of words (as editor) "More than Gold" in the "heading" he gave for an interview article.

  • Bucket Lists for this and that but "never the other"!

    A recent article from News.com by Paul Hansford describes the so called Bucket List of things to do before you die.

  • CTA Chairman steps down after nearly 20 years of service

    The board of Christian Television Australia today paid tribute to their former Chairman, Rob Adsett who has stepped down from his role after almost twenty years of service.

  • Marseille France visited by Luis Palau, tour concludes

    Argentinian-born evangelist Luis Palau preached in the southeast coastal city of Marseille, France on Saturday, concluding his three-day Christian outreach festival.

  • Christian RE sought to be boosted by Barnabas Fund

    Barnabas Fund is asking Christians to donate teaching packs to schools to help enrich the teaching of Christianity within Religious Education.

  • Easiest Churches to attend

    A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Ben Groundwater listed the easiest countries in the world to travel through as a tourist. The UK was on top of the list followed by New Zealand, Germany and the Netherlands.

  • More than Gold - an interview with Mark Tronson

    Australia's 'Footplate Padre' may have a stutter, but he can still eloquently speak out about cricket, the 2012 Olympics and the 'The King's Speech'