Articles in the magazine
1 December 2019 And then I had children. And I took them shopping. In the process, I discovered that no amount of experience – no amount of classroom teaching, babysitting, or continuous late nights – can ever prepare a person to parent a child, especially when the child is throwing a tantrum in a supermarket. […]
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1 December 2019 The program for a short time also operated in Sydney and Melbourne. Newly married couples can share their life experiences with couples who’ve been married for at least five to 10 years. The program was started by Maurie and Bernice Boland who had received requests from young newly marrieds who said they
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1 December 2019 News stories in the final weeks centred on the thousands of tourists who were keen to scale the monolith’s mighty heights before the ban took effect. And many did line up in their thousands for one last chance to climb Uluru. Most Australians were reportedly ‘comfortable’ with the decision to prohibit climbing
1 December 2019 What do you get when you cross the Atlantic with the Titanic? About half way. * * * A chicken and a duck were standing on the side of the road. The chicken turned to the duck and said “Don’t! You’ll never hear the end of it.” * * * An elderly
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1 December 2019 Reclaiming family time is a book by Tim and Sue Muldoon, who, as the parents of three children, understand the pressures on families. In their book, they offer some salient advice on what families can do to ease the workload and function better as a family. Tim is a theologian and professor
1 December 2019 Technically, emails are not letters – they have no handwriting, or stamps, or carefully chosen stationery. They lack the weight of a letter, and a hopeful dash to the computer is not the same as a hopeful dash to the letterbox! However, email has a redeeming ‘to and fro-ness’. How often have
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Fathers are special but why celebrate in September?
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French author Victor Hugo (1805-1882) wrote, “A library is an act of faith.”
I joined my local library at about the age of ten. I clearly remember walking into the children’s section, which was something like a large walk-in wardrobe, and being overwhelmed by the floor to ceiling books
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A letter was sent in from Mary Gartland of Blackburn, Victoria regarding the passing of her mother in September 2018. Her mother had been a Majellan subscriber for more than 60 years. The following is a tribute written by Mary’s nephew, Michael.
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On a sunny morning in July 2017, Gold Coast Titans NRL player Chris McQueen nervously lay waiting on a hospital gurney. Having swapped his bright blue jersey for a white hospital gown, he watched as the anaesthetist wiped his arm with an alcohol swab and winced as the needle of the intravenous cannula pierced his skin.