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In 1991 Dr Mark Tronson appointed me as Chaplain at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) replacing the inaugural chaplain Reverend Ken Bond who was moving. These continuing 23 years (2019) have been a highlight of my ministry with a non-churched community. Very few ministers have such an opportunity which has been enormously beneficial to me and I trust to those whom I've served in elite sport. I've always had an interest in sport as sport is a microcosm of life and having been a foundation Panellist and now solely a Sport Panellist, I have taken a great interest in their articles as they ...

Photo  -  Shell Bowser We do a major clean up every few years – what, in Australia refer to as a spring clean regardless of what time of year it is. A recent News.com article reveals the story of a couple who realised they had way too much stuff - they had spent over-the-top on clothes, had a reality check, got rid of it all except the bare essentials and went walking. Giving away about $10,000 worth of stuff to reduce her possessions to a box of sentimental mementos and a backpack of clothes, writer Erin Van Der Meer, 27 says the experience was liberating and when she eventually resett...

Photo  -  Life Lines Does what you hear bear truth? Our 4th, our 3rd daughter, came 6 years after the other three. The older children understood dad’s ridiculous stories (dad jokes) but the youngest took these stories as gospel. She thought, what a liar is my father. Years later we discovered this anomaly. This scenario often occurs – something is said or written, and it seems obvious, but then another person does a careful analysis on it and what was first thought to be reasonable became seriously questioned. The classic case is in the annals of the Reformation where Eck and Luther w...

Photo  -  Dawn   Nelson Cook who established Coaches of Influence (COIN) 40 years ago in Los Angeles USA writes a monthly letter to the many coaches at professional, college and high school levels and the current correspondence touches the spot. It has been my privilege since 1984 to have been hosted innumerable times by Nelson Cook in my years in sport ministry, the most recent was in 2009 where I addressed coaches over breakfasts, lunches and dinners. This is another of those Christian ministry movements where one person has a vision for a ministry area that had been untapped and gather...

Photo  -  Bligh sign As a Christian Today daily columnist my nose is into publications of all sorts, not least New Zealand on-line media for a number of reasons. Our young writer program has 23 New Zealand young people engaged and as this is the fourth year of involvement by New Zealanders, so too there have been a number of these young writers (8) who have written for two years and moved on. Then, there is my involvement with ARPA for seven years and continuing – the Australasian Religious Press Association – with professional journalists writing in Christian publications – whether ...