A Decision I Had to Take
Helena Moseray came from Sierra Leone to visit her daughter in Newcastle in 2013. She wasn’t planning a long stay but events intervened. She shares her story.
Why Should I Enrol My Child in SRE?
Most public schools have Special Religious Education (SRE) – also known as school scripture – classes but contrary to what happened in the past, parents now have to choose whether or not to enrol their child.
What does it take to live well?
We know that 4 million Australians will experience mental illness this year alone. Many more of us will be affected as family members, friends, colleagues or school mates. No longer can we consider mental illness to be a fringe issue affecting only a few. In fact, it affects us all.
No Present like the Time
There’s a moment in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel when hotel entrepreneur Sonny says, “No present like the time!” The misquoted cliché applies easily to a recent experience. Over some 35 days, I walked the pilgrim’s path across northern Spain. Camino is Spanish for ‘road’ but it’s come to refer to an ancient way, marked by yellow arrows, that leads from St Jean Pied de Port in France, across the Pyrenees Mountains and westward to Santiago de Compostela; ‘St James of the field of stars’.
Approaching the word of God in the New Testament
After years of study in some of the best places in the world, I have devoted much of my life to teaching, preaching, and writing about the New Testament. I am touched by the belief that the Gospels and the Letters of the New Testament communicate ‘the Word of God’ to all believers in a remarkable fashion.
What Sort of God would Choose Violence Over Peace?
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference recently combined with The Broken Bay Institute in sponsoring an eConference with the theme Religion: Catalyst for Violence or Peace: Probing the Abrahamic Traditions for Answers.
Don’t think about Purple Elephants
When she was seven years old, my daughter Elizabeth started to have trouble settling at night. She had never had problems before, so I assumed her requests for me to stay with her for “five more minutes” were simply a ploy to extend her bedtime.
Staff and Students of St Brigid’s are Buzzing!
What do the following words have in common: accommodation, plausible, catastrophic, immediate and elaborate?
