Using smart phones and other digital technology to create emoji, memes, and gifs has proved to be a great tool for improving literacy in primary school students. The SELFIE project led by Kathy Mills from Australian Catholic University (ACU) , embraced the modern language and platforms of children and gave them new ways to express ideas, feelings and emotions. Improved literacy is a benefit for many areas of life from health to employment.
Read James 2:14-17 14 What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone? 15 Suppose you see a brother or sister who has no food or clothing, 16 and you say, “Good-bye and have a good… Continue reading The social gospel
One of the most important questions to answer in this life is, Do you know what God wants you to do? It would be a very sad thing, I think, to get to the end of your life having never discovered your purpose. Yet I suspect there are many just like that. We need to discover and fulfil God’s purpose for our own lives.
Read Colossians 3:17 17 And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. (NLT)
A ruling by Canada’s highest court has prevented a Christian University establishing a law school, based not on the quality of the proposed degree but on the Christian view of marriage which the University endorses. Is this a precedent that will erode religious freedom elsewhere?
Mission Australia’s 2018 Winter Appeal focuses on the close link between domestic violence and homelessness. The organisation says over 1165,00 thousand people are homeless every night.
The eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano over the last several months has been spectacular and reportedly has even rained gems. Emeritus Professor Richard Arculus, from the Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU, a world-leading expert on volcanoes gave Open House a lesson on volcanic plumbing and revealed Australia has two active volcanoes of it’s own.
Chris Cippoloni didn’t set out to be ‘that guy who wrote a book about depression and Christianity’. It began as a few scribbled thoughts as this pastor and teacher tried to make biblical sense of the condition that had led him to hospital.
An outstanding opportunity for young Christians to polish their skills and become the leaders we need for tomorrow. “We sponsor 100 plus of the best up and coming Christian leaders, and bring them together with an exceptional group of established Christian leaders. We send these young people home with pathways and a plan to live out their faith.” William Wilberforce Foundation CEO, Jonathan Green, told Stephen O’Doherty on ‘Open House’.
What can you do when the ‘howling void’ of the internet pops up as a meme on your facebook feed? Are ‘majority’ opinions just people trying to guess what everyone else thinks? Mastering the art of disagreeing agreeably.
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