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Credit is the lifeblood of the modern economy. It saturates our lives — from the personal credit we each use to purchase household items or to buy our homes, to the shadier, more mysterious world of credit default swaps (CDSs) and other derivatives that commercial banks now trade like a currency. But it’s the very ubiquity of credit that prevents ...

WHEN PREPARING a worship service people in ministry all over the world seek the advice of one Brisbane-based Uniting Church minister. In 2000 Indooroopilly Uniting Church minister and long-time member of the National Working Group on Worship Rev David MacGregor began a website called Together to Celebrate. The site offers musical selections that link up with weekly readings from the ...

One of the best known voices in Australian worship music is afraid we have missed the point of Christianity. Former Assembly of God pastor and founder of the Hillsong music empire Geoff Bullock told Journey he questioned the theology of many of the songs sung in churches, including some of his own songs. “The biggest thing that I fear is ...

The Journey team has been honoured with three Bronze Awards at the Australasian Religious Press Awards held in Brisbane on Saturday night. In a highly contested competition among print and electronic religious press across Australia and New Zealand journey was commended in the categories for best website having a religious connotations, best editorial/opinion piece and best headline. The Journey web ...

ON A GLOBAL scale the United Nations figure is that one in six people live on less than US$1 a day. When faced with this statistic it is possible to forget the extent of poverty on our own doorstep. According to the Australian Human Rights Commission life expectancy for Indigenous Australians is almost twenty years less than it is for ...

A FEW years ago the Jerusalem City Christian Church didn’t have its own building. They used another denomination’s facility, and shared everything they had, selling their property and possessions to give the money to the poor. They broke bread in their homes, praising God each day. Today the River Gum Ridge View Estate Uniting Church (Journey’s hypothetical church) is an ...

DO YOUR eyes still light up when you recall the thunder of a Wesley hymn raising the rafters at Albert Street church in the 1950s? This writer remembers adults shaking their heads when we began using choruses from Scripture in Song at Aitkenvale Methodist church in 1974. They muttered about “Jesus songs” and “ditties” from the brown book. Lately my ...

The death and destruction in the outbreak of violence against Christians in the North-East Indian state of Orissa has far exceed official figures according to reports by a Bishop of the Church of North India. Bishop of the Diocese of Amritsar Rev Pradeep Kumar Samantaroy said the people of Orissa have not forgotten how their loved ones were axed, beheaded, ...

FROM ANGER to acceptance, there is no right way to react when you have been told you or a loved one has a terminal illness. In the face of that reality, faith is one of the aspects of life that often comes to the surface. Linda McWilliam is a palliative care chaplain at the Wesley Hospital in Brisbane. She said ...

FIFTEEN TO Twenty-five-year-olds seem to have a standard response to every question: “Yeah, whatever.” Generation Y seems to have reinvented the ‘Generation Gap’, a term first used as a headline in Time Magazine in 1967. “No western metropolis today lacks a discotheque or espresso joint, a Mod boutique or a Carnaby shop. No transistor is immune from rock’n’ roll, no ...