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  • Boost to Laguna Quays Respite for missions since video release

    There has been a significant boost to the Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite for missions since the release of the 2 min video in October. The missions\' cottage video is on its respite ministry for missionaries, home missions, church full time personnel developed by Well-Being Australia.

  • Trump, Obama unite in effort to help country heal from bitterly divisive campaign

    U.S. President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump met for the first time, setting aside the deep rancour that dominated the long campaign season to discuss the transition to the Republican\'s inauguration on Jan. 20.

  • An exchange

    Allegory is a powerful way of using story to illustrate ideas about true things. This is a conversation in stilted exchanges—the way we used to communicate in letters, telegraphs, postcards and emails, between one who is lost and searching for the other and one who is calling the other home.

  • That Aussie chant fitting on this day

    11.00am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month Australia remembers those who lost their lives in WWI, the Great War. It is therefore fitting to discuss what Australian\'s chant as \'Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi, oi\' has been known to be shouted on such solemn occasions.

  • Inquiring of God?

    In recent weeks I have been noticing the multiplication of commissions of inquiry by which our government strives to run the country.

  • Opinions, opinions everywhere... but not a drop to drink

    I have a bone to pick with the world, and it\'s this: I don\'t want to hear one more of your opinions. Anyone\'s opinions—not a single one; I\'m done. I don\'t care what you think about the environment, politics, culture, economics, education, or the state of world affairs.

  • Stop men dying young - MOvember 2016

    The state of men\'s health is in crisis. Men experience worse longer-term health than women and die on average six years earlier. Prostate cancer rates will double in the next 15 years.

  • Nigerian Christian woman's whereabouts still unknown two years after kidnapping

    Sunday Maidawa, a Christian living in a town in southern Kaduna state, feels the loss of his brother and sister-in-law daily in the four children left to him.

  • Trump victory evidence of political elite disconnect from 'concerns of ordinary people', says ACL

    Donald Trump\'s surprise win is further evidence of a growing global backlash against a political class which is increasingly disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people, the Australian Christian Lobby claims.

  • Trump wins White House

    US Republican Donald Trump yesterday was elected as the 45th President of the United States of America over Democrat opponent Mrs Hillary Clinton, the first woman to have been nominated to stand for such office.