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Book review: Deep Time Dreaming

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 04:03:39 +0000

Billy Griffiths’ latest book Deep Time Dreaming uncovers the role archaeology has played in shaping our understanding of Australia’s vast history, particularly in relation to Indigenous culture, and what this means for contemporary relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Nick Mattiske reviews. In the 1960s the archaeologist John Mulvaney was told by the ABC that ...

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Book review: More than 100 of the Best

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:02:51 +0000

After a lifetime serving God and the Uniting Church throughout Queensland, Rev Trevor Foote has released More than 100 of the Best, a collection of sermons from his extensive archives built up from decades of preaching. Rev Bruce Raymond reviews. Preaching can be an unpredictable business. I have delivered sermons making some points which I ...

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Book review: The Shack

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 10 May 2017 23:34:20 +0000

William Paul Young’s novel The Shack became a mega sensation after solid word-of-mouth from America’s Christian community transformed it from a little-known novel from a tiny publishing outfit (operating on a shoestring marketing budget) to a USA Today best-seller. With the film adaptation—featuring Hollywood stars Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer—about to hit Aussie cinemas, Rodney ...

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Book review: Walking Home

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 04:23:02 +0000

Over five years ago Journey reported on a group of friends who were walking 2000 kilometres around Queensland to raise awareness about the 2000 languages into which the Bible has not been translated. Andrew Sav, one of those walkers, has since written about his experiences on that trek for his new book Walking Home. Neil ...

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Gathering in all of God’s children

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 01:40:25 +0000

Being an inclusive community of faith with respect to adolescents with developmental disability is not just about the “how”. It is not just a pragmatic question of leadership, or support mechanisms, or developmentally appropriate programming. It is a question about who we are as the people of God, and the reality that we are not ...

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