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August 27, 2006

Human Cloning and Mother Teresa

Earlier this year I had the privilege of visiting India with a group of Compassion Australia staff. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the moment we landed in Calcutta (or Kolkatta as it’s now known). Stepping onto the tarmac the...

August 20, 2006

Unseen Does Not Equal Unreal

A few years ago a newspaper article caught my eye. It suggested that in a vast and lonely Australian desert lay a secret. The story immediately set my imagination alive. I thought of the desert: winds sweeping along the parched...

August 13, 2006

Generation Y and God

According to new research, few if any of today’s Aussie youth feel a need for God and most are getting along fine without him. The Spirit of Generation Y project, which surveyed 1272 people born between 1976 and 1990, explored...

August 6, 2006

Does God Need a ‘Re-Brand’?

Does God need a ‘re-brand’? That was the question I recently found on an online forum for marketing executives. In other words, if you think of God as a ‘product’, does he have enough relevance for today’s ‘consumers’ or does...