Some people feel the pressure to live up to their family names. Others know that their first or middle name represents a recognition of a forebear or someone notable and admired. It can be tough to be worthy of a name. In Isaiah chapter nine we learn about the hardest name of all to live …
Moore College is an Anglican theological training facility in Sydney, NSW. It has a special place in the hearts and minds of Australian Presbyterians because a number of our pastors received the bulk of their theological education there, and also because their theology is very similar to our own. Mark Thompson, who blogs at Theological …
Following on from the situation mentioned here, the congregation now known as The Tron Church, Glasgow have left their place of worship and relocated to another venue. The outcome of the situation, though flowing from a different process than that experienced by Australian Presbyterians 35 years ago, does raise very similar feelings among many people …
The suicide of a nurse who was one of the victims of a prank call to a London hospital by Sydney radio presenters has been covered in overwhelming depth in other places. Noting the difference between a guilt/justice based culture (the West) and a shame/honour based culture (the East, sub-continent and Africa), it seems that …
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