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Tuesday, 4 October 2022
| Bruce Wearne
When the Lord answers our daily prayer for 'this day's bread', are we going to pray this prayer for those who do not have enough to eat and those who have to eat from rewards gained under oppression?
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Thursday, 29 September 2022
| Susan Barnes
Bessel van der Kolk's thought-provoking book explores some of the newer, more unconventional therapies available to modern psychiatrists, giving hope to deeply traumatised people - and challenging Christians to think outside the box.
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Wednesday, 28 September 2022
| John Kidson
'The Lord controls the mind of a king as easily as he directs the course of a stream.' (Proverbs 21:1)
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Wednesday, 28 September 2022
| Nils von Kalm
Entering into our pain takes us to the deepest place, to reality, to the loving heart of God.
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Tuesday, 6 September 2022
| Claire Harvey
The 2022 Christian Book of the Year not only tells the story of an innovative and effective approach to reforestation, but it also doubles as a powerful and moving contemporary Christian biography of God’s call on the life of author Tony Rinaudo and his wife Liz.
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Thursday, 25 August 2022
| Michael J. Toy
The metaphor of war runs rampant in the way we speak of illness or disease. But most of us don't die in battle. What other metaphors and images can we find that better describe the inevitably and beauty of change?
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Sunday, 21 August 2022
| Patricia M. Robertson
If there is an end to this eternal / path she cannot see it and it / does not stop.
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Thursday, 11 August 2022
| Lindsay Tanner
When our relationships with our fellow human beings are overlaid with mindless prejudice, the outcomes are toxic.
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Thursday, 4 August 2022
| Belinda Wu
Endnotes for Zadok Paper S260: ‘From Panda to Dragon? China and the West’s Relationship Goes South’, Zadok Perspectives and Papers 155 (Winter 2022), 14-16.
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Saturday, 30 July 2022
| Gordon Preece
We pay tribute to Ron Sider, whose writings revolutionised Christian perspectives on poverty and helped develop the radical discipleship and Evangelical justice movements.
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