The bell had just rung for the end of recess. Children were heading back to their classrooms, and Year 1 teacher Mrs Boonen was preparing to return to hers when she noticed one of her students stumbling across the playground towards her, fists clenched, rubbing her eyes, sobbing. Mrs Boonen crouched to the ground and extended her arms to Amelia, and the six-year-old rushed into her teacher’s embrace.
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SRE & Australia: Are We a Good Match?
By: Laura Bennett
Traditions are a fickle thing. A lot of us have them but can’t always remember where they came from. We like to protect them, but can be really disconnected from their origin.
That’s not an Apology, This is an Apology; A Christian Apology
By: Anne Rinaudo
Apology has been in the news recently – mainly for all the wrong reasons. There has been Elon Musk to a Thai based diver, the Thai Wild Boars soccer team assistant coach to parents for getting trapped in a cave, Craig Kelly, MP, to the father of three children who died on the MH17 flight.
‘Human Flow’ – The Profound Film That’s Set to Change Hearts and Minds on Refugees
Above: Asylum seekers flee their homeland by boat, captured in the documentary ‘Human Flow’.
By: Clare Bruce
“The world is shrinking, and people from different religions, different cultures, are going to have to learn to live with each other.”
Worship and Relationship
By: Susan Browning
Worship can’t exist without relationship – when you love something or someone you spend time with them, when you adore someone you lavish love on them. Worship simply means to place value or worth on something or someone. Ways we place worth-ship on someone is through compliments, praise, adoration, affirmation. We can only feel all those things through knowing someone, we can only know someone if we spend time in their presence.
Handling the Conversations with Your Kids that Matter Most
By: Laura Bennett
Curiosity is something to be encouraged in our kids, but when they start to ask curly questions about life, faith, and why you make them set the table how do you handle it?
You’re Both So Different? That Could Be What Makes Your Marriage Work
By: Sheridan Voysey
Twenty-one anniversaries later, I sometimes look at my wife Merryn and wonder how this marriage of ours works. I’m a writer and speaker, Merryn is a statistician. I work with words, she works with numbers. I want beauty, she wants function. We come from different worlds!
3 Ways to Future-Proof our Schools, Students and Educational System
By: Michael McQueen
Over a century ago, the great educationalist John Dewey remarked: “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”