The past couple of years, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code has been a best-seller worldwide. People are fascinated by the speculation and conjecture the book raises as it seeks to revise historically the life of Jesus. For the uninitiated, the novel’s thesis proposes that Jesus marries Mary Magdalene and their daughter produces a line…

Imagine you are an Olympic swimmer representing Australia. You are required to put in long, hard hours of labourious lap swimming; a regimented diet of exercise and eating and being coached and critiqued on your stroke technique constantly. What drives this is the vision of standing on the podium, hearing Advance Australia Fair blaring over…

Back in the day, colonial Australia utilised what was known as the “one room schoolhouse”. This would be a gathering of students ranging from the beginning learners in grade one to high school age. Think about the difficulties a teacher would face in trying to educate in this context. How do you teach one student…

People often ask me, “When you go off and do these missions, does any lasting good from it?” Sadly, many miss out on knowing how to answer that question because their team only visits a locale once and then moves on to greener pastures. Through our fellowship, Subiaco Church in Perth, Western Australia, we have…