The September issue of The (Presbyterian) Pulse, magazine of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales is available for download. Apart from a substantial amount of news from across the NSW churches, the issue features a substantial report on the decisions of the General Assembly (State Church annual meeting). When local churches are able to …

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I read somewhere that the only human being who never had a messiah complex was the one who actually was the messiah, namely Jesus. (If I was more efficient, I’d have a referencing system.) The rest of us fall into various degrees of trying to trying to rescue parts of (or all of) creation, instead …

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At Solapanel Tony Payne has been stepping us through ten propositions that are being raised in a forthcoming book he is co-authoring. I’d though about commenting on the whole ten at once, but that would get a bit unwieldy. The fourth was posted today. So far we’ve been told that: 1. Our goal is to …

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New Scientist magazine’s website features an online version of an article entitled ‘Ten Things We Don’t Understand About Humans’. Despite the article’s title they really try to have a crack at explaining them anyway. The ‘Things’ they don’t understand about the human body are interesting, as are the principles they bring to bear in providing …

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