When I started university studies in the late 80’s I first encountered the use of BCE/CE (before common era and common era) instead of BC/AD (before Christ and anno domini/year of our Lord). Recently there was a bit of a kerfuffle about the changing to BCE/CE in the proposed national curriculum for schools. Anyway, the …
Today I attended the ‘opening’ of a children’s memorial at the old Mount Gambier Cemetery on Lake Terrace, Mount Gambier. The memorial serves as a focal place where the deaths of children who died before birth or during infancy, but for whom there is no marked grave, can be remembered. I was unaware of the …
From the Christianity Today blog: Pat Robertson advised a viewer of yesterday’s 700 Club to avoid putting a “guilt trip” on those who want to divorce a spouse with Alzheimer’s. During the show’s advice segment, a viewer asked Robertson how she should address a friend who was dating another woman “because his wife as he …
I submitted a reflection piece on 9/11 for our local newspaper, The Border Watch. Here’s the text. Some of us argued about whether the new century began on January 1 2000 or January 1 2001. But 11/9/2001 or 9/11 is the shorthand code that I think history will use to mark the commencement of the …
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