From the keyboard of Robert Benn, moderator of the 2007 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, and received through the PresENews email network: Dear friends, On October 17th, this year, in Rome, Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first saint, is to be “canonized”. Of course we are interested in this, because some of our tax …

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“Preach the gospel at all times; when necessary, use words” is one of those sentimental woolly headed pieces of nicety that sounds fine until you realise that it doesn’t really mean a thing. Well, not a true thing anyway. It’s right up there with such classics as “Give someone your phone number; when necessary use …

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The Presbyterian Theological College, Melbourne, recently conducted a Mission Week in cooperation with the Hume Presbyterian Church. Jared Hood has three posts on the week. He describes the mission as: a week of evangelism based at Hume Presbyterian in the northern suburbs (near Melbourne airport). It was a great week, with a lot of doorknocking …

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