Imagine if you had never read or heard the message of the Bible in your own language? That is the reality for Australia’s Indigenous community. Although more than half of Indigenous people are Christians, very few have read or heard the Bible in their ‘heart’ language.
Sometimes by accident, sometimes by design, professional and amateur shutterbugs vie each year for the honour of having their ‘perfect storm’ – or rainbow, cloud or wave – picked as a feature image on the annual Australian weather calendar. Meteorologist, Grace Legge, from the Bureau of Meteorology’s Extreme Weather Desk, talked to Open House about her favourite weather.
Humanitarian and civil society agencies working in Rakhine State in Myanmar and in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are deeply concerned about the planed repatriation of refugees back to Myanmar. Rohingya refugees have repeatedly expressed a great deal of fear about going back.
In April 1915, at a little-known beach in Turkey named Gallipoli, two legends were created. The first was the courage of the Australian soldier: the second was the wartime service of the Salvation Army. On Open House Major Brett Gallager, the head of The Salvation Army’s Red Shield Defence Services remembered the role of The Salvation Army in conflicts past and present.
Watching TV is a very popular pastime in our country. Companies have done research on this topic, asking, How many hours do Australians spend watching television? The results may astound you: Australian kids as young as 3 years of age are watching 9 hours-per-week, while a typical teenager watches about 4 hours-a-day. And many of… Continue reading Values – What Values?
Start your day right by spending time with God in his Word along with John North of Ambassadors for Christ.
The charitable organisation Dignity is making a huge difference in preventing long term homeless for at risk individuals and families. Now 50 inspiring stories are told in a new book.
Start your day right by spending time with God in his Word along with John North of Ambassadors for Christ.
Has the world changed a lot since WWI? Well, yes and no. Society, culture and technology have all advanced but some of the political issues that drove the world to the Great War are still apparent in global political tensions. Professor Simon Tomey from the University of Sydney took Open House on a whirlwind tour of one hundred years of politics and populism.
Start your day right by spending time with God in his Word along with John North of Ambassadors for Christ.
Read 2 Corinthians 12:19-21 19 Perhaps you think we’re saying these things just to defend ourselves. No, we tell you this as Christ’s servants, and with God as our witness. Everything we do, dear friends, is to strengthen you. 20 For I am afraid that when I come I won’t like what I find, and… Continue reading Messy Church
Nothing short of principled leadership can now end the debacle that has become the debate over religious freedom rights in Australia, writes Open House host Stephen O’Doherty.
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