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Aira Chilcott

Press Service International

Aira Chilcott is a retired secondary school teacher with lots of science andtheology under her belt. Aira is an editor for PSI and indulges inreading, bushwalking and volunteering at a nature reserve. Aira’s husband Bill passed away in 2022 and she is left with three wonderful adult sons and one grandson.

Aira Chilcott's previous articles may be viewed at http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/aira-chilcott.html

  • A ramble about change

    Don’t you hate it when you’re driving along, aware of the cars around you, and the person who has signaled to turn left suddenly changes their mind and veers back in front of you?

  • Life after fire

    The Australian bush is no stranger to fire. In fact, several species need fire in order to regenerate.

  • Australia on fire

    Having survived the 2003 fires in Canberra, I am absolutely gobsmacked at the number and scope of the fires in our wide brown land of Oz at the start of 2020!

  • Kids on school holidays

    It is our summer school holidays of six weeks and there are kids everywhere! Free range chooks lay free range eggs. You are supposed to somehow mystically taste that these eggs came from chooks that are happier, healthier, more at peace, than caged chooks. No?

  • Fence vs guard rail

    I wish that someone had been there for Eve when she was tempted to jump the fence in Genesis chapter 3! Little did she know that God’s command was a guard rail of ginormous proportions with eternal consequences for all humanity.

  • I’m a Christian but I don’t go to church

    Really? I wonder what you think being a Christian looks like? Or what a church actually is?

  • Will robots take our jobs?

    We humans seem to have a really strange relationship with work.

  • Can a scientist believe in miracles?

    My immediate response, as both a Christian and a scientist, is a resounding YES! End of discussion, what more do you want to know?

  • One small step…

    As I write this, I remember teaching Year 12, 50 years ago, sitting in a lab with my biology class watching the Apollo 11 moon landing on a tiny TV screen. School stopped as we watched the beginning of a new era in space exploration. I was very much into Dr Who at the time, and the images and sound looked very Dr Who-ish!

  • What would you say to your younger self?

    It seems to be a popular exercise these days to ask “What would you say to your younger self?”, or a variation on that theme.