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David

  • Polishing hard things

    One of the great joys I have stumbled across in my line of work is pounamu carving. Pounamu is hard and highly valued stone that is commonly known as greenstone or jade.

  • Guard your heart this Christmas

    Christmas. The time of year when fellowship seems to be a universal dream. Families reunite, friends meet up, couples stick together like glue... arguments are had, feuds rekindled, mistakes made.

  • Dolly magazine is closing it\'s doors – Christmas 2016

    The hard copy newsagent magazine market continues to be hit hard with inroads by the on-line alternatives and news has come to hand that one of the most vibrant of all, \'Dolly\' is closing early 2017.

  • What? They banned Christmas?

    They don\'t call it the \'Silly Season\' for nothing. Christmas time has become a hotchpotch of traditions, religious and secular and commercial, all of them claiming to have the true Christmas spirit.

  • Community Christmas

    Rev Dr Rowland Croucher the Pastor\'s Pastor in his highly acclaimed John Mark Ministries web site for Ministers, Missions and Church workers and confirmed by Barna the Christian polster organisation – say there are \'more followers of Christ\' in our suburbs who do no attend a church than do.

  • Grateful for life's busyness

    I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the Young Writers\' email saying this month\'s article was the last for 2016. \"Thank God,\" I thought.

  • Removing the labels

    I grew up with a black and white Christianity. A \"this is right—and that is wrong\" approach to the world. For instance, alcohol and homosexuality were bad, attending church good and praying daily even better.

  • Remember and rejoice

    It\'s December. If you weren\'t prepared for it, you are probably already swamped by the silly season and its \'happy holidays\' happenings. All gears change come the first of the month when everyone prepares for their end of year celebrations.

  • Indian churches attacked, warned off celebrating Christmas

    Christians in Manipur, north-east India, have been warned off celebrating Christmas, sources told World Watch Monitor.

  • Christmas markets in Berlin remain shut as truck rampage victims mourned

    Christmas markets in Berlin stayed shut on Tuesday as the city mourned the victims of the previous evening\'s truck rampage, while security measures were stepped up at similar events elsewhere in Germany and abroad.