By Kristin Jack Why devote this issue to the theme of non-violence? Why is this important, or even relevant, for an evangelical mission working among the poor? Three key reasons:  1. Because Jesus had a lot to say on the issue – and hasn’t often been heard.  2. Because this is a crucial issue in […]

By Tracey Makamae17th October, 2006. My daughter’s 23rd Birthday- it’s 1:40 am and I’m sitting in the departure lounge at Darwin Airport terminal, wide awake after a double-shot latte.. Four other activists and I face Alice Springs court this morning in a non-violent peace protest at the gates of Pine Gap facility last week. During […]

Over the past few months i have been starting to feel like i am not the person for the job i have been doing……………..i get way too frustrated at the politics and the systems and feel like i just can’t compromise my framework any longer……….for example…………..working out of a risk management (fear based) framework…………instead of […]

A Lesson in forgiveness in the face of snarling hate Don Rowe is a special bloke. As the NSW president of the RSL, it was he who accepted the apology of that 17-year-old Lebanese-Australian boy who stole the Australian flag from the Brighton-le-Sands RSL Club during the Cronulla riots, and he who extended the olive […]

The Amish response to the brutal slaying of five of their own offspring in an old fashioned, one-roomed school house was a blueprint for how President George Walker Bush should have responded to the slaughter of nearly 3,000 of our own citizens in the tragedy of September 11, 2001. The merciful decision to forgive a […]

The family of the gunman who killed five Amish girls in a Bart Township schoolhouse today released a statement thanking the Amish community for their “forgiveness, grace and mercy.”… “Our family wants each of you to know that we are overwhelmed by the forgiveness, grace and mercy that you’ve extended to us,” reads the statement, […]

  Amish response to schoolhouse shootings teaches us all a lesson in faith and healing…We’ve all tried to imagine how it must feel. How would we have responded if it were our daughters, our nieces, our granddaughters who’d been shot, execution style, in the brutal shooting at the West Nickel Mines School in Bart Township […]

Last night i was out in the valley in Brisbane just hanging out with some friends.  As I looked around at the masses of young adults filling the streets, lining up for hundreds of metres to get into the trendy bars, (there is no other place, at least in Brisbane, where i have seen so many people […]

   Occasionally in life, you get a urge to do something and find the resources to be able to do it. One day I woke up and decided a few things: I don’t want to buy clothes that keep people trapped in poverty just so I can have a nice pair of jeans. I don’t […]

Its obvioue people loved Steve Irwin, even though many of us Aussies were a bit embarassed by him as an ambassador for our country. It’s funny how after someone dies and you hear their story you realise how tops they were after-all.  Samantha and I were watching him talk in an interview on Andrew Denton […]

Tim and Maz Walker (married 18 years, three boys, Chris Josh and Arron) Aug 2005 – Aug 2006 has been the most eventful year of our lives, this all started when we decided to start living as Jesus says….. Oct 2005, we give away our most expensive possession (except for the house and the bank […]

Just thought i would let you all know that i am having an Australian Idol Party at my place every sunday night at 7:30pm……………..if you too are a secret lover of idol……………can get to Redcliffe in Aussie land…………..like chocolate freckles…………….wizz fizz…………and hanging out with people in their 20’s and 30’s on the edge of sanity………….then […]