by user | Jul 7, 2024 | Faith
By: Stephen McAlpine When my son was learning to ride a skateboard we would go down the skate park for what seemed like endless hours, and he would stand at the top of the ramp and try to ‘drop in’.When my son was learning to ride a skateboard we would go...
by user | Jun 26, 2024 | Christian Teaching
By: Stephen McAlpine I saw this sign on the back of a New Zealand bus (above) and was struck by both the brilliant marketing, as well as the desire for a sense of community that we now simply assume has been lost.It’s a call for something that no longer exists,...
by user | Jun 16, 2024 | Christian Teaching
By: Stephen McAlpine Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were...
by user | Apr 4, 2024 | News
By: Stephen McAlpine Moving between Australia and the UK several times in my youth (the 1980s) showed me one thing: Australia was always a couple of years behind the UK and Europe.By that I mean, it was behind in terms of fashion, music, styles, direction. If it were...
by user | Jan 16, 2024 | Lifestyle
By: Stephen McAlpine We had a staycation this year for our summer holiday.In recent years we’ve meandered south of Perth a couple of hundred kilometres to the more temperate part of the state, and done the beaches, restaurants and wineries in a milder summer...
