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David

  • Think for Yourself: Don't always believe the experts

    Being a new parent I have enjoyed many new things, and had new struggles. However, one thing has become apparent: there are many people who have opinions about parenting, and there are many apparent \'experts\'.

  • Messages in paint

    There is a creative arts uprising happening in the Church across the globe—particularly in the visual arts. Every day my Facebook wall fills with mighty masterpieces of insight and truth created by many of God\'s awesome creative family.

  • 1942 - Darwin's master plan in wartime – bombing anniversary

    When visiting Darwin I took the bus tour which highlighted the bombing of Darwin during February 1942. Subsequently, I was most interested in an article that appeared in the Darwin News. One side of politics was castigating the other side of politics regarding the issue of a master plan for the city.

  • Saeed Abedini asks followers to pray for his marriage

    Saeed Abedini asked his followers to pray for his relationship with his wife via a Facebook post which broke his four year-long social media silence on Sunday.

  • Australian abuse victims crowdfund trip to Rome for Vatican treasurer testimony

    Australian victims of child sex abuse have raised over $85,000 through crowd funding to travel to Rome to watch the Vatican\'s Australian-born finance controller give videolink evidence to a local inquiry.

  • Italy postpones gay civil unions voting

    Italy on Wednesday postponed voting on legislation that offers homosexual couples legal recognition as some allies of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi pushed for the removal of a provision that allows limited adoption rights.

  • What do pancakes, mathematics, physics and eye surgery have in common?

    It seems that there is far more science involved in the kitchen than many people have realised, and conversely, if scientific observation and methodology can be applied to cooking, then the principles can help solve some problems in industry and medicine too.

  • Christianity and Islam in real time – No 5

    To introduce this series I have engaged the same paragraphs, this time I am shortening it to focus on the nature of Christianity - love, repentance, forgiveness and compassion with a world view taught by Jesus and expounded in the New Testament that ultimately there will be a divine reckoning for those who reject this astonishing measure of Grace - the Cross.

  • A Christian perspective on mindfulness

    In 2015 a wide variety of adult colouring books appeared on our supermarket shelves. Labelled as the current fad, many Australians have joined the craze, stocking up their colouring pencils and recognising there\'s something ever so relaxing about colouring!

  • My fortnight in the cannabis capital of Australia

    \'You know they don\'t wear clothes in Nimbin... and you\'ll get offered marijuana three times a day,\' my uncles joked when I told them where I was going for an intensive Permaculture Design Course.