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Timely support for prisoners’ families

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 01:43:17 +0000

For the female relatives of Queensland prisoners, it can often feel as if they’re “doing time” with their incarcerated loved ones. Uniting Church members along with those from other denominations are helping to ease the pain with the Kairos Outside program. Ben Rogers reports. Created in North America in the mid-seventies, Kairos prison ministry started ...

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Forgive us our sins

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:50:05 +0000

In the 21st century what should Christians make of the concept of “sin”? A long-gone relic or a necessary corrective in a society seduced by moral relativism and the cult of victimhood? Simon Gomersall explores sin, Easter and atonement. It is now conventional to assert that the language and concept of sin is irrelevant in ...

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Let it go

QLD Synod Webmaster — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:00:39 +0000

Janet Staines explains how an oft-repeated line from a Disney song reminds her to forgive. I recently saw a sign outside a school classroom that read, “This classroom has gone 28 days without singing the song from Frozen: ‘Let it go’.” If you have children or grandchildren you will know well the award-winning song from ...

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