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Hoppers crossing couple foster a spirit of care
Tuesday, 3 August 2010In 36 years of marriage, Nadine and Speros Coutsouvelishave cared for three of their own children, adopted seven children, and have fostered more than 200 others.
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Reactions mixed on refugee plan
Tuesday, 3 August 2010The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed tougher policies on people smuggling from both sides of politics, but refugee advocates are not so pleased.
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Outback Anglicans need help, says bush bishop
Tuesday, 3 August 2010As life in the bush gets tougher by the year, the Anglican Church's "bush bishops" are working hard to ensure the church can still offer a vital lifeline to country people.
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Globalisation offers no hope, says theologian
Monday, 2 August 2010Globalisation is theologically significant but does not have the capacity to create hope beyond perpetual instant self-gratification, says Professor John McDowell.
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Op shop's $3.5 million in 50 years
Monday, 2 August 2010During 2010, the St Augustine's Southern Opportunity Shop in Florence Street, Mentone, is celebrating 50 years of community service and the giving away of more than $3.5 million during that period.
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Fresh Connections DVD to assist parishes
Monday, 2 August 2010As part of AIM4Melbourne - Anglicans in Mission - a DVD has been sent to all parishes and chaplaincies to foster engagement in Back to Church Sunday 2010 and to provide examples of activities which worked well in 2009.
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Readers' letters: Keep focus on Gospel and building up the church
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US leader calls on Christians to break barriers
Monday, 2 August 2010The leader of Anglicans in the United States has told a Brisbane congregation that growing numbers of people believed that Christians were "bigots, hypocrites and uninterested in those who differ from them" and that the only response was for Christians to leave their "communities of safety" and reach out to them.
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Stanner lights way towards a shared Dreaming
Monday, 2 August 2010This reprint of a collection of the essays of W.E.H. Stanner, perhaps Australia's greatest anthropologist, is outstanding.
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Post-Christendom world requires twin roles for Church
Monday, 2 August 2010David Clark has suggested that we should refocus our way of seeking to be the church, so that the church becomes the Christian community for the kingdom of God, existing in the dual modes of the church gathered for worship, learning and caring, and the church dispersed to fulfil its mission in the world.