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David

  • Key and Turnbull – personal identity step - Aust and NZ - "ease of travel"

    John Key and Malcolm Turnbull New Zealand and Australian Prime Ministers have reached an agreement to access personal identity documents from either country and this is the first sensible step in having passport-less travel between both countries.

  • Teddy Bears and Dolls of a life-time

    Christmas is soon near, and soft toys and dolls have such a long association with people, that we probably do not know when they started.

  • Loving God with all of our minds?

    We\'re all familiar with the commandment to \'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength\' (Mark, chapter 12, verse 30).

  • The Myth of Perfect Christmas

    The trouble with Christmas is not the commercial underpinnings or the trappings of food and wine that see us creeping back to the scales in shame. The trouble with Christmas is how it perpetuates the myth of Perfect.

  • North Korea sentences Canadian pastor to hard labor for life

    North Korea\'s highest court has sentenced a South Korea-born Canadian pastor to hard labor for life for subversion, the North\'s official KCNA news agency reported on Wednesday, a punishment condemned by Canada as \"unduly harsh.\"

  • U.S. Homeland Security chief says social media used in immigration vetting

    U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Wednesday that his department has been consulting social media as part of the process of conferring immigration benefits since early this year.

  • Young Iraqi girl forgives ISIS: 'God's blessing will be greater for those who forgive'

    A powerful Christmas message has been delivered a young Iraqi refugee calling for the forgiveness of ISIS.

  • Caught in the act

    I love to act. I\'ve done so most of my life. There\'s something captivating about it: the creativity, trying to see the world from another perspective, the camaraderie.

  • Confessions of a school chaplain

    \'What is a chaplain?\' must have been asked of me over 1,000 times the last two months.

  • What's my name?

    I have a German forehead. It\'s big. I know that. I\'ve been told all my life, sometimes in ways that were pretty cruel and sometimes in ways where it seemed that people really thought they were informing me or enlightening me about something I didn´t know.