Columns

by Pastor Reid Matthias

In the retelling of the wilderness experience, the Israelites’ reflections recount the difficulties they endured (including those they brought upon themselves) but those accounts always seem tinged with a touch of gilded longing: ‘Remember when God took care of us in the wilderness?

by Helen Beringen

For nine years from February to December 86-year-old Owen Uebergang has been serving up soup and making friends with those he meets at a special Monday evening gathering in suburban Adelaide.

by Pastor Jon Goessling

Kids are very different from how they used to be, and yet, kids are very much the same as they always have been.

by Angela Uhrhane

When someone asks for support do you accept the invitation? Or decline? Or think about it first?

by Suanne Tikoft

Reconciliation. It’s a thoroughly new relationship; an end to estrangement and hostility. For the Apostle Paul, it’s about God’s work in Jesus, the way he died, rose and brought us into a right relationship with God. But there’s more.

by Helen Beringen

Never underestimate the power of a simple greeting card to touch someone’s heart. For 84-year-old Irene Joppich, the unexpected arrival of a handmade card in 1994 did just that as she faced testing times while volunteering in a remote outpost.