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INSECTS ON THE MENU?; A 'SPACE ODDITY'; BACK FROM THE DEAD; AND, A FOUR-YEAR-OLD MAYOR...

Insects already form part of the diet of an estimated two billion people but they may well be on even more menus in the future as experts look to alternative means of feeding people. The Food and Agriculture Organisation says that insects (and there are about a million known species) could provide a “readily available source of nutritious and protein-rich food”.

     DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life... | more... |

THOUSANDS OF EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS JAM STREETS FOR 'HOLY FIRE' CEREMONY...
While Roman Catholics and Protestants in Israel and across the world celebrated Easter Sunday on 31st March this year, for hundreds of millions of Eastern Orthodox in Russia, Ukraine, Greece, the Holy Land and elsewhere the highlight of Easter 2013 came on Saturday, 4th May, when tens of thousands of the faithful packed Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher to witness the Holy Fire ceremony marking the resurrection of the Christian messiah.

     GIL ZOHAR, of Travelujah, reports...  | more... |

MEMORIAL TO QUAKER SERVICE INAUGURATED AT UK'S NATIONAL ARBORETUM...
A memorial to Quaker service opened at the National Arboretum at Alrewas near Lichfield on 20th April. It commemorates the work of the Friends Ambulance Unit and Friends Relief Service during World War II.

    The Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) was an independent body led by Quakers but open to all. During the Second World War over 1,300 men and women served in 25 countries, building a record of goodwill and positive service.

    A report from Ekklesia... | more... |

IT'S EASTER AND A CHANGE OF SEASON...

It’s Easter week and I’m watching that delicious softness in the autumn atmosphere start to blur the sharpness of summer down here in southern Victoria. The dry grass in the paddocks has the colour and look of a grommie’s* surf-bleached hair - all oaten white and fly away, the sunrises pastel soft and the shadows at the end of the day are long in the golden light before slow sunset. Summer crowds recede and Easter tides increase.
     It's back! ANN WOJCZUK's blog about life, the universe and possibly everything...  | more... |

EVERYTHING IS RELATIONAL...

Over the last year or so I’ve been realising how everything in life is related to our relationships, whether we realise it or not. All of our interactions are either constructive or destructive for our relating. That’s why life is so difficult. I thought of saying during a sermon once that life is easy until you have to relate to someone! It is for this reason that doing our best to get our relationships to work is the most important thing we can do with our lives.

     NILS VON KALM'S blog on faith, life and how it all might fit together...  | more... |

OUT OF AFRICA: TAKING YOUR BLESSINGS FOR GRANTED...

I have been thinking a lot lately about how blessed I was living in Australia. Sadly much of that blessing was in a sense ‘lost on me’ because I didn’t see it for what it was. The longer I live here the more I realise the day-to-day difficulties people face in the majority of the world. I am amazed that people are able to keep their hope when so many things seem so difficult.

     Things I have always taken for granted - access to water, nutritious food and good medical assistance - are, at times, just not available here. I am horrified at the number of times people come back from our local medical clinic saying that there is no medicine or even occasionally no doctor.

     LENA JOHNSTONE's blog about life in Malawi, Africa, where she works with the Mphatso Children's Foundation... | more... |

THE STOREROOM: HOW TO ABOLISH SLAVERY? GUEST POST BY THE APOSTLE PAUL...
From Paul a servant of Christ Jesus, and Richard his brother.

     So, as I wrote, my hope was that in the homes of the Church in Ephesus the relationships between slaves and masters would be transformed.

     Also, I left Timothy in Ephesus and wrote this to him: “We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. We also know that law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers – and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine that conforms to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God, which He entrusted to me.”

     Emphasis is mine. Well, actually, the whole thing is mine.

     RICHARD THOMAS' sometimes weird and sometimes wonderful 'storeroom' of ideas... | more... |

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JUST BEEN THINKING

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A CHURCH EMERGING: SEARCHING FOR COMMUNITY

I have been grappling with the issue of community for some time now, but was challenged recently by a response to an article on depression recently posted on this site. The lady who posted the comment expressed that although she had been involved in church life for many years she was in fact very lonely and had also experienced depressive episodes during her life. That really got me thinking. How can someone be a church attender, surrounded by many Christians, and yet still be lonely?

     RUSSELL STUBBINGS' blog about church planting, building community, local mission, and new ways of “doing” church... | more... |

BLOGROLL

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Brass tacks

A blog by Rod Benson, an ethicist and public theologian with the Tinsley Institute.

http://rodbenson.com

Footprints Magazine

www.footprintsaustralia.com/blog

Andrew's Version

A blog by Andrew McGowan, Warden of Trinity College, the University of Melbourne, mainly about Anglicanism, early Christianity and theological education.

http://abmcg.blogspot.com/

The Religious Write

A blog by Barney Zwartz, religion editor of The Age newspaper in Melbourne

http://blogs.theage.com.au/thereligiouswrite/

The Living Room

A blog by Melbournian Darren Rowse on the emerging church, blogging, faith and other "general silliness from south of the equator".

www.livingroom.org.au/blog/

signposts

Blog of Melburnians Phil and Dan McCredden, both involved in leadership in the Northern Community Church of Christ.

www.signposts.org.au

Jesus Creed

Blog of US-based scholar Scot McKnight, a widely recognised authority on the New Testament, Christianity and the historical Jesus.

www.jesuscreed.org

Carl Brettle  - Memoirs of a Skinny Welshman

www.carlbrettle.com

Speckman's Scratchings

www.speckmansscratchings.blogspot.com