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Australia has been distracted in recent days with questions about an art show of naked children. Police raided the exhibition last Thursday and seized some of the images of naked 12 and 13 year old children. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd spoke out against the display, while the artistic community defended the show. Questions emerge such [...]

This is the day that … William Carey preached his “deathless sermon”, as it is described by his biographer, S. Pearce Carey. 
It was 1792, and the place was Nottingham, England.
At 10.00 a.m. the young cobbler/pastor from Leicester rose to address the small group.  His text was Isaiah 54:2,3:  “Lengthen thy cords … strengthen thy stakes [...]

Now that researchers have been able to observe chemical changes within a person, directly linked to that person’s past experiences, there is a better understanding of how experiences can be translated into genetic changes. Those genetic changes may then be passed down to descendents.
Are these findings bringing us closer to understanding how curses are passed [...]

This is the day that … Hyman Jedediah Appelman was ordained, in 1930.
This remarkable evangelist began life in White Russia on 7 January, 1902, born to an Orthodox Jewish family.  He was reared in the Jewish faith, emigrated with his family to America in 1914, became an outstanding scholar at various schools and universities and [...]

As I have reviewed the subject of personal sovereignty with you in recent months I have sought to open your eyes to the special privilege you have of doing business, directly and personally, with the God of all creation. Our greatest authority comes from the highest official – and so coming under the direct authority [...]

This is the day that … Sir Robert Anderson was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1841.
It was at the age of 19 that he saw a change in one of his sisters … she had been converted at a revival meeting nearby.  “I cherished the thought,” he wrote, “that the next Sunday services in the [...]

This is the day that … William Walters died, in 1907, on the Isle of Wight, where he was holidaying.
Born in Wolverhampton, England, about 1848, to godly parents, William grew up apprenticed to the printing trade.
Eventually he had his own little printing business – and he also issued some Christian publications.  These were almost entirely [...]

Which substance is behind the word aplomb?
You may hear tell of someone who displays much aplomb. You may, as I always did, associate that with someone who spoke with a plum in their mouth. The notion of determined correctness could come to my mind. A person with aplomb was always imagined by me as being [...]

This is the day that … the Sudan Interior Mission (S.I.M.) was born, in 1898.
“On 24 May, 1898,” Rowland Bingham later wrote, “Helen E. Blair entered with me into life partnership … we were married three days before the mission was born …” (Flame of Fire, by J. Hunter, page 66).
In the previous decades an [...]

Where is xenophobia normally directed?
Xenophobia, built on two Greek roots that trace back over 2,000 years, is yet a very young word dating back just 100 years or so. We all know that phobia is fear. All manner of things are deemed to be the objects of phobia (fear) today. I guess if you have [...]