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David

  • How temporal are our earthly treasures

    I am on a roll when it comes to visiting palaces. I have so far ticked off China\'s Forbidden Palace and Summer Palace, Korea\'s Changdeukgong Palace, Britain\'s Windsor Castle and France\'s Palace of Versailles.

  • Railway crews handled change – Footplate Padre

    With the transition from steam to diesel in the late 1950s-60s, a new era for locomotive crews came into being. One of these related to the nature of keeping the train running.

  • Perfect fear casts out love

    I have a friend who lives in a nice suburb with elegant houses, mini hedges and luxuriously expensive cars. She and her partner recently completed a swath of renovations, which included finishing the street-facing fence with a fresh white coat of paint.

  • What to do when you've got no answers

    Life is pretty weird. That has to be the understatement of the year. But it\'s true. We live a strange, complicated and confusing reality of humanity and life.

  • Big sky over Midge Point Beach for missionaries visiting Laguna Quays Respite

    The Whitsundays missionary respite cottage for missionaries, mission and church full-time personnel developed by Well-Being Australia at Laguna Quays Respite has a remarkable natural phenomena – the big sky on Midge Point Beach.

  • 2016 Rugby Championship review

    The Rugby Championship came to a conclusion last weekend, with the All Blacks demolishing South Africa in a record-setting 57-15 victory. It was both the highest score and biggest winning margin for any game between the two countries.

  • The 2030 Agenda One World Government

    This time last year the United Nations approved The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It introduced \'a new universal agenda\' for all mankind.

  • Paradox of pain

    There are moments in life, when it all is too much, when the pain is overwhelming. When you find yourself in the uncomfortable state of nothingness. When every tortured love song sounds like gospel.

  • Reality check

    In the chaos of hectic days, I am repeatedly swept along by a roaring current. Waves of culture and societal normalities wash over me.

  • What's wrong with our original name?

    The trending style on social media is to use an alternative name or nickname in place of our given name. In some countries, such as Korea and Japan, celebrities take on a different stage name instead of using their birth name.