CONVERSATIONS: ROGER JAENSCH, A ROCHA AUSTRALIA
Global Christian conservation organisation, A Rocha, has come to Australia. DAVID ADAMS catches up with president Roger Jaensch…
In the US, evangelical leaders proclaim 2017 the ‘Year of Good News’
Two dozen prominent evangelical pastors and denominational leaders are calling Christians to make 2017 the “Year of Good News.” That appeal came in a letter organised by Harvest Crusades founder Greg Laurie and published online on Tuesday. “In a time of bad news, distracting news, divisive news, disorderly news, and, sometimes, depressing news we – as […]
MUSIC: RECREATING THE SOUNDS OF AN ANCIENT GREEK CHURCH – IN LA
ZARA ABRAMS reports that a recent recital on the campus of Saint Sophia Cathedral, was the first time ‘acoustic photocopies’ were used to recreate the experience of the Agia Sophia, one of the oldest churches in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, for a modern audience…
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I won’t win any popularity contests for this spot. It’s not something we like to admit. Necessities – or luxuries? PICTURE: Sebastian Stefanov/www.freeimages.com Many Australians are not finding life tight because we lack income but because of confused priorities and over extending ourselves! We live in a materialistic society drowning in advertising that tells us […]
Czech shared Sudan prison cell with Islamic State convicts who beat him up and abused him
World Watch Monitor A Czech Christian aid worker, freed from prison in Sudan on 26th February, has spoken of how the prison authorities treated him. “The first two months were probably the most severe for me because I was placed in a cell together with members of the Islamic State, who humiliated me as a Christian. It […]
SIGHT-SEEING: THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S ART – AND MATHEMATICS
US writer BRIAN NIXON, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at the concept of God as the archetypal mathematician…