I’ve been continuing in post-easter mode with articles for the Border Watch. Next week will have a remembrance theme. I’m conscious that not everyone will read all of these, so even though themes overlap they have to stand on their own. I’m also working on the idea that there will be a committed readership that …

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This week’s Border Watch article includes thoughts about the end of daylight saving and how meeting the resurrected Jesus manifests an everyday lifestyle of reconciliation and forgiveness. The editor picked up on the association between resurrection and reconciliation in the paper’s title for the piece, which was nice. So, last Sunday was my favourite day …

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I used Who Will Roll Away The Stone by Ordinary Time as a prelude to the sunrise Easter service at 6.30am this morning. Mark’s Gospel was thematically woven through the service. This song picks up elements of Luke’s account. The lyrics: Early in the morning, the sun already risen Three women came bearing spices, the …

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From David Cook, Presbyterian Church Of Australia Moderator-General. The Christian facing death has two common questions, I will deal with the first in this column, the second question in the next column. The first question is, at the point of death, when I leave all that is familiar, what will be my conscious experience? Read …

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