ENI-08-0736 Bangalore, India, 15 September (ENI) Churches in India have deplored a series of attacks on Christian places of worship in the southern state of Karnataka, and have called for measures to protect minorities in the world’s second most populous nation. "We demand an immediate stop of the eruption of violence in different parts of the nation in the name ...

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 ...

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 ...

A FAITHFUL few marked the end of an era that saw thousands worship in the community church building at the Marsden Youth Centre in Kallangur, north of Brisbane. Built in the 1930s by Frederick Marsden and given to the community, the Congregational and then Uniting Church building served as a place of worship until the mid 1990s. Rev Evan Stenlake ...

“Honour older people as we do our own aged parents, and care for other’s children as one’s own.” (Ancient Chinese proverb) “It takes a village to raise a child.” (African proverb) THE ANCIENT wisdom of China and Africa can sometimes be seen and heard running up and down the aisles on Sunday or sitting in the comfy chair at home ...

SOME OF you may have seen the movie, Antwone Fisher. It tells the true story of a boy who was given up by his mother when he was born. He was raised in a foster home where he experienced severe and relentless psychological, sexual and physical abuse. He grew up with a deep-seated anger within him that readily and frequently ...

Soon after houses were built in the estate near Bowman Park and families moved into the area, the Methodist Church established a worshipping community in Bardon. By February 1945 a Sunday School was meeting in the kiosk in Bowman Park and later in the year the Guide Hut in Cecil Road was the site of the first official Methodist Church ...

ENI-08-0643 Berrien Springs, Michigan, 11 August (ENI) Adrienne Townsend has been officially sworn in as the first Seventh-day Adventist woman to serve as an active duty chaplain in the United States Navy, 35 years after the first female became a chaplain in the U.S. forces. Lieutenant Junior Grade Townsend said her four years as associate dean of women at Adventist-owned ...

YEAR IN the Son (YITS) is a gap year program for 16-21 year olds that provides young people with the opportunity to spend one year learning more about God and about themselves, and to gain understanding, skills and attitudes that will help them face the challenges ahead with confidence and competence. Run through the Faith and Life Institute, Year in ...

MANY STEREOTYPES have a basis in fact. According to health authorities, the traditional wisdom that Australian men don’t like to open up about their personal problems is accurate. The growing awareness of men’s health issues has served to break some of that silence, as blokes find support when they can talk with others who have ‘been there and done that’. ...