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Designing a new family structure?

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There was a story in the paper this week, about “the High Court being asked to decide whether sperm donors who intend to be involved as fathers, and are known to their biological offspring as dads, should be recognised as legal parents”. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/high-court-test-case-on-sperm-donor-who-helped-raise-child/news-story/98f6ec9e2166827068984e3fe7d21874 Did you get that?  We’ve reached the point where it is getting too … [Read more…]

Israel Again

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This last week there was another little rumble about Israel Folau.  Once again there are people complaining about the ‘homophobic’ links he is posting, about his ‘preaching’, how he does this in defiance of Rugby Australia, and how he should stop it. I went to the trouble of watching the YouTube link to the talk … [Read more…]

Learn to Forgive Yourself ….

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It has become pretty fashionable to talk about learning to forgive yourself, or learning to love yourself.  I wonder if you have heard that, or maybe even said that yourself. Not to put too find a point on it, I think that these expressions are some of the most self-absorbed non-sense that it is possible … [Read more…]

Struggling with Hardship

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We’ve just had a cold wet week (about to become a very hot weekend) in the middle of harvest.  Which means that harvest stops, the condition of the crops may deteriorate, volumes reduce, and the return for the year’s work diminish.  These are the realities of farming, and when these things happen, it produces a … [Read more…]

What is the point of living?

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This is something which our culture is increasingly providing schizophrenic answers to. On the one hand we have organisations like Beyond Blue which help depressed people see that life contains hope, we put huge efforts into suicide prevention (particularly targeting vulnerable groups), and we are constantly being told how wonderful everyone is and how there … [Read more…]

Joy

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A happy family photo where you can see joy on people’s faces.  It often comes about from a special event, or a special holiday. I love seeing joy on the kids faces still, especially so in the every day things we do.  Jokes. Funny stories.  Looking at something special that crosses our paths in the … [Read more…]

Church Attendance and Faith

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I with respect to the recent census results on religious affiliation, I recently commented that “I’d expect to see these numbers drop considerably as time goes on – because the headline figure of 52% of Australians identifying as ‘Christian’ vastly overstates the number of people heading to churches”, and I thought that this warranted some more … [Read more…]

Christians and the Greens

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I was listening to the radio on the drive out to church on Sunday morning, and they had an interesting story on the Greens and the factional tension between the ‘left’ and ‘right’ of the party (the use of these terms was hugely offensive to the ones labeled as being on the ‘right’ – which … [Read more…]