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What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘meditation’?
On Sunday night we had a variety of repsponses including ‘old men with beards’, ’silence’, Eastern religions’ and ‘incense’. Interestingly, things that are closely associated with Eastern or Transcendental meditation are those that most readily come to mind.
Eastern meditation is all […]

Two articles today that astound and sadden me. Both have to do with sex education…
The first talks about how the Australian Council for Islamic Education in Schools has adopted a ‘just say no’ policy when it comes to sex education. But not only that, they have banned teachers from discussing things like homosexuality and safe-sex, […]

An interesting article appears in the Age newspaper today about the Pope’s trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Having a Pope visit the place is not unique, but having a German Pope visit is…
Apparently Benedict XVI is a a fairly well respected theologian, but when it comes to the hideous reality of what happened during […]

A man climbing Everest - a double amputee no less. Comes across a guy clinging to the last stages of life and walks straight past him, because he doesn’t want to hold up his expedition. “He was effectively dead,” the climber is later quoted as saying.
A woman is kidnapped from the back of her work place and all that […]

Some of the MBC gang have been working on a youth website and have made podcasts of most of the messages from the last few weeks, including the Song of Songs series.
If you know what a podcast is and want to listen, visit the site here.

So far, we’ve looked at how Song of Songs defines love, we’ve talked about the guys experience of love and the same for the girls. This week, we looked at how couples experience love and how the reality matches (or differs from) what is portrayed in the Old Testament love poem.
Our passage was Song of […]

I was on the way home from college today and thought I’d drop into the local hospital to see two of our folk who had been unwell. One is 99 years old and broke her hip in a fall about a week ago, the other was having some trouble with her diabetes and related issues.
Anyway, […]

Read the book and thought it was ok. Not that well written and some fairly obvious twisting of historical facts - I’m a little bemused by all the fuss about it. Seems like anything that even remotely sounds like it might be ‘anti-church’ will become instantly a best seller.
My review. Good story but that’s it. […]

Dean Rankine’s cartoon ability makes me insanely jealous! His way of portraying the gospel story and other Biblical themes inspires me. When I grow up, I want to be like him…
Anyway, click here to see the first of four pages on Psalm 23 and the Vampire Death Squad. Once there, use the little green triangles […]

On Sunday night, we continued looking at Song of Songs in the Old Testament, this time looking at love from the girl’s perspective. I was joined by the expert on all thing girlie - Kaye Sherriff from the Deeper department of the Baptist Union of Victoria. (She’ll love it that I said that….)
Our passage was […]