This was published in our local paper, The Border Watch, today. The skies in Zimbabwe at during September are a vivid blue, uninterrupted by the blemish of clouds. Around the horizon a haze fades the blue to grey as your eyes lower to view the landscape. The departing dry season of winter leaves a brown …

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Here’s a piece submitted for publication in our local Mount Gambier paper. Last year my sister asked if I could come to Maryborough in Queensland to celebrate her fortieth birthday. I tried to sound positive but also said she’d asked for a hard thing: it was a long way to travel from Mount Gambier to …

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This article was published in today’s Border Watch (our local newspaper) as the weekly pastor’s piece. April 15 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The tragic event has remained in the public consciousness thanks to movies such as the understated A Night To Remember or the more gaudy epic Titanic (not …

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