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My wife and I recently celebrated our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Planning how we would mark the occasion was left to my discretion. Maybe I should have taken her on a vacation — a second honeymoon of sorts. Instead, I planned a gathering of a few dozen friends at our house. Perhaps I’m cheap, but one of the key reasons I did so is that I think of our marriage as a public thing, even if few people actually know the inner workings of our marital life. Our marriage is an entity with ramifications and consequences that echo outside our home. The same is true in reverse: what happens in...

Concern over repeat data hacks happening in the public sector Concern over repeat data hacks happening in the public sector 26 May 2021 The Waikato District Health Board is still grappling with a crippling cyber attack and potential privacy breach. A group claming to be responsible says it'll release confidential data -- if the DHB doesn't comply with its ransom demands. IT security expert David Ayers says the DHB has had about seven major IT security incidents over the past few years -- and officials need to be held to account. He says the DHB hasn't learnt its lessons and it has to sto...

Concern over repeat data hacks happening in the public sector Concern over repeat data hacks happening in the public sector 26 May 2021 The Waikato District Health Board is still grappling with a crippling cyber attack and potential privacy breach. A group claming to be responsible says it'll release confidential data -- if the DHB doesn't comply with its ransom demands. IT security expert David Ayers says the DHB has had about seven major IT security incidents over the past few years -- and officials need to be held to account. He says the DHB hasn't learnt its lessons and it has to sto...

ANALYSIS/OPINION: The late James Q. Wilson, former professor of government at Harvard University, once said, “It is not money, but the family that is the foundation of public life. As it has become weaker, every structure built on that foundation has become weaker.” Those words came to mind as I reviewed some sobering and disturbing statistics from Pew Research and others on the views of Christians when it comes to marriage and cohabitation especially young Christians. As our society has de-buckled itself from the institution of marriage, with catastrophic results, it seems now that the c...

Churches should certainly be doing outreach, but more than that, we need to do a lot more "in-reach."