The painful topic of sexual abuse in the church, was in the news this week. A big report has been released in Ireland - 2600 pages - detailing the kind of abuses children suffered in schools and orphanages from the...
What happens when you wake up, and don't want to go to work... ever again? It's a scenario many people have faced... Kasey Edwards is one of them. She was a 30-something, highly successful change-management consultant... who realised she couldn't...
THIS WEEK'S SCENARIO: Kathleen's expecting a baby, and her dilemma is in relation to her pregnancy. Being over 35 years old, she's been given the option of the test for Down Syndrome. And she's facing a dilemma over whether to...
A Review of Merlin - by reviewer Mark Hadley of Anglican Media CHANNEL: Network TENTIME-SLOT: Sundays, 6.30 pmRATING: PG Merlin is basically Harry Potter television. Aimed at the tweens and teens, it draws on a growing appetite for fantasy fiction to sustain...
THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION A review of Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century, by Walter Rauschenbusch. Reviewed by Kara Martin Walter Rauschenbusch was the eighth in a line of pastors and started his...
Two stories have gotten me depressed this week. The first is, as you’d imagine, the Matthew Johns story. He’s lost his high profile jobs with Channel 9 and the Melbourne Storm, as well as his reputation, over that group sex incident...
Christian authors trying to make new culture A review of Beckwood Brae - David H Webb, and Nemesis Train - Nathan Brown. Reviews by Kara Martin In Andy Crouch’s Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling, he says: “It is not...
Cyber bullying raised its ugly head again this week, with yet another story emerging about internet harassment between school students. A private school in Sydney has expelled two girls for posting gossip about their classmates on MySpace. The gossip included...
What is God really like? What you believe about God’s nature and personality affects everything else—how you live, work, pray; the way you understand love, interpret evil and the way you see the world with all of its beauty and...
Tonight’s scenario will probably strike a chord with more than a few people… It comes from a single woman, Linda. About 6 years ago, Linda was proposed to - by a man she was friends with, but who she wasn’t...
A Review of "Mad Men" - by Mark Hadley, from Anglican Media CHANNEL: SBSTIME-SLOT: Thursdays 8.30 pmRATING: PG Mad Men is earning the industry’s top accolades – five Golden Globes and 20 other awards – demonstrating that audiences still hunger for truth,...
There’s a new trend among young people that is so troubling, it’s prompted a government warning campaign. It’s called sexting – short for “sexually explicit texting”… It’s a growing phenomenon where young people send naked and explicit images of...
Business Review Magazine has made an audacious move - it’s thrown down a challenge to Australia’s wealthiest people, to be more generous. The call comes as the magazine launches Rich 200 – its annual list of Australia’s richest people. They want...
THE PROBLEM: This week's scenario is a tricky church-based dilemma. Some of the names and details have been changed to protect privacy, but the essential problem is this: Rita is a church staff member. One of her fellow staff members...
This week we spoke with Leighton Ford - a man who's lived a remarkable life. He spent thirty years preaching with Billy Graham, has led many to a personal faith in Christ, mentored hundreds of young leaders, and now, at...
