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David

  • 'The Church has let people down,' Cardinal Pell child abuse testimony

    Senior cleric Cardinal George Pell has admitted the Catholic Church was more concerned with protecting its own reputation than helping abuse victims.

  • Anthony Hopkins' Autograph

    My Uncle Peter is a funny guy; always telling stories, finding the funny side of everything, prompting laughs, silent stares of, \'did he really just say that?\', and gasps of \'ooh\' and \'ahh\'.

  • The fat fledgling

    As a parent, a female Cuckoo is either very lazy or awfully smart. Perhaps a bit of both! Instead of worrying about the responsibility of raising offspring she sneakily passes it on to some other hardworking bird.

  • When photographs really matter

    If you had five minutes to leave your home, never to return, what would be the first items you would take with you?

  • Strongholds

    Any number of things can exercise a strong hold over us and that to varying degrees of intensity, which can become mentally imprisoning, distorting of personality, distracting and weakening.

  • Laguna Quays Respite – NZ missions direct flights to Whitsundays

    By winter this year international flights Whitsundays–New Zealand will be functional – allowing New Zealand missions / pastors to avail themselves of the Laguna Quays Missionary Respite cottage (Whitsundays).

  • Footplate Padre tells the story of the Red Bull

    As the Footplate Padre I have had the opportunity to hear many stories from the days of steam. This was an era where drivers more often than not had time to \'kill\' (as it were).

  • UK PM - not targeting Sunday School teachers or Christian youth leaders

    British Prime Minister David Cameron has stated categorically he does not intend to cover Sunday schools and summer camps in the Ofstead scheme where the Government proposes a nationwide registration for any out-of-school setting providing instruction to under 19-year-olds for more than six hours in any week.

  • Too early for hot cross buns?

    At the beginning of every year the local news shows complain about how early bakeries start selling hot cross buns, some of them straight after Christmas. Many commenters feel early sales take away from how special they are to the occasion of Easter.

  • Managed decline?

    According to statistics and a recent pew sheet of my church; the Anglican Church has been in decline in the West for over 100 years. Numbers of Australian Anglicans have also been in steady decline since 2001.