A TIME online portal has a featurette about a UK company that provides mourners to attend funerals for a fee. Worried that not enough people will show up your funeral? Let Rent-A-Mourner help. The ingenious and aptly-named company allows concerned parties to pay for professional grievers to fill a funeral home and make sure that …
Thoughts on the difference between being a Christian who creates and Christian creativity by Jeffrey Overstreet at The Rabbit Room. It’s helpful you find yourself considering a book, movie or music and wondering ‘Is it Christian?’ Something that has stayed with me is this quote from Katherine Pearson, which Overstreet uses in his essay. Novelists …
Phil Burcham is remembered by South Australian Presbyterians from his time here (he and his family are now based in Perth, WA), and is known by some around the nation. In this extended article, published on the First Things website, he writes of his personal experience with the modern eugenics movement, now known as genetic …
We inhabit a culture obsessed with images of perfection, whether they be our bodies or our lifestyles. Add to that our inclination to idealise and normalise the best of what we perceive around us and our lives become a mire of dis-satisfaction. Altered photographs fill our media, creating a false sense of bodily perfection. Commerce …
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