The Importance of Touch in Raising Teens – Tips for Parents
By: Collett Smart
A shortage of healthy touch can have detrimental effects on our health and wellbeing, even leading to psychologically damaging effects.
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How to Do Friendship With the Opposite Sex – God Conversations
By: Tania Harris
Back in the first century, it wasn’t normal for men and women to be friends. They didn’t meet for coffee in morning tea breaks or discuss current affairs over the water-cooler. They didn’t sit next to each other in the synagogues and swap ideas about their theology. They certainly didn’t discuss their spiritual lives by the village well.
Jakki Overcame Abuse and Wants to Help Others Break Free
By: Ben McEachen
Sydneysider Jakki Civeriati can look back and clearly see the awful foundation that her life once stood upon. Read more
The Most Influential People in the World
Think about the most influential men and women who have ever lived; those who have brought the most good into the world. I’m sure that a few names spring to mind. But perhaps they aren’t the most influential people in the world. Perhaps the most influential people in the world were their parents. Read more
Switchfoot’s Tim Foreman Says Opposition is an Opportunity to Grow
By: Laura Bennett
Switchfoot’s new album Interrobang was produced by a staunch atheist. That may seem like a pretty mundane fact to point out, given people of different faith backgrounds work together all the time, but in this case it meant the band’s album was completely infused with the philosophies their new music is trying to convey. Read more
What’s Your Parenting Style?
There’s a phrase I hear a lot. It’s usually some variation on the following: “There’s no one right way to parent.” Read more
The Healing Power of Going Back
There are plenty of movies about time travel where the hero has to go back into the past to fix the present. Don’t you wish you could do that? I think we’ve all wished that. Read more
Do People Matter?
By: yesHeis
I recently sat and watched the sunset over the roofline of my neighbourhood, the repeated brick and mortar jungle I live within.
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Kath Sees Our Christian Community, And She Wants Some
By: Stephen McAlpine
I got home from church last night and my neighbour diagonally opposite, Kath, was out in her garden. It was a mild evening, sun not fully set, so I wandered over for a chat.