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Thursday, 21 April 2022
| Gordon Preece
As believers scattered in the public square, we are engaged in mutual encounter, searching together, but across tribal lines, for transcendent truth. The latest issue of Zadok on ‘Public Speaking’ explored what this engagement looks like in 21st Century Australia.
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Thursday, 14 April 2022
| Sam Waldron
For all those in part apart:
This is my body, broken for you...
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Thursday, 7 April 2022
| Denise Cooper-Clarke
Morag Zwartz’s honest reflections on her struggle - as the mother of a son with Down Syndrome and an aggressive blood cancer - touch on profound truths about life, disability, illness and death and make this an inspiring rather than a depressing read.
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Friday, 25 March 2022
| Keith Clements
An appeal by the former General Secretary of the Conference of European Churches to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Tuesday, 22 March 2022
| John Kidson
A devastated township causes reflective thinking.
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Monday, 21 March 2022
| Charles Ringma
With a gentle humour, John Kidson shares his passionate involvement in life in this whimsical, playful and humorous autobiography with a difference.
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Wednesday, 2 February 2022
| John Kidson
Taking time out to ponder and reflect can bring us more than simple rest.
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Friday, 7 January 2022
| Claire Harvey
In this short novella, Sarah Bacaller grapples with questions and reflections about God, faith and church, and reminds us that there is nearly always more going on under the surface, if we are quiet enough to listen.
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Friday, 17 December 2021
| John Kidson
Ohh he had waited calmly, his patience only stretched and tempered with hope; he could not know her past joyful-pain... could not conceive her future hopeful-pain...
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Thursday, 16 December 2021
| Paul Arnott
What's could be wrong with getting things done – and done really well? Justine Toh asks the hard questions about our addiction to achievement and where grace fits into it all.
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