This infographic identifies each country’s oldest school or university still in operation. Some will surprise by how old they are, perhaps more surprising are how recent some of these institutions began. If you click on the image you’ll see a larger size image. At Online Schools Report the original is accompanied by others focussing on …
This chair is in the pulpit of the Presbyterian church at Penola. No one sits in it anymore, but it’s still there. A chair is not what the church is about, but it is a reminder of the centrality of the word in that place. It represents a wonderful legacy.
I wake up without an alarm each morning, but there are mornings where I’m 20 or even 30 minutes past the time I usually rise. Of course I’ve got any number of devices that I can set as alarms. Before those devices we used an alarm clock (or two). Some of you might even remember …
The Fountain Of Public Prosperity by Stuart Piggin and Robert Lindner is a scholarly history of evangelical Christians in Australian history in the period from 1740 to 1914. (A second proposed volume will cover the period from 1914 to 2014). Not only do the authors seek to demonstrate the ways in which evangelicals have shaped, …
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