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Steven Huang

  • Embracing new cultures

    According to Wendell Pierce, \"Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It\'s how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.\"

  • Helping out my neighbour's cricket team

    With winter coming towards the end of its cycle for another year, the days are starting to get longer and warmer. And as the calendar turns ever closer to summer, we also come closer to the season for summer sports—which includes cricket.

  • Wellington New Zealand is apparently a haven for Australian home buyers

    Wellington, New Zealand is apparently a haven for Aussie home buyers and there is plenty to go around. According to Dana McCauley of News.com many of our best high tech people are moving across the Tasman.

  • 'Winners focus on winning, losers focus on winners'

    \'Winners focus on winning, losers focus on winners\' was splashed out across the globe with this timely image of Michael Phelps (USA) and Le Clos (South Africa) swimming the 200 metre butterfly final in the Rio Olympic Games this week.

  • Words that build or destroy

    On the morning of September 11, 2001, theologian Miroslav Volf was just finishing a talk to the International Prayer Breakfast of the United Nations in New York. The time was 8.34am. The topic was reconciliation.

  • Eastern Europe opening its doors to Israel - the opposite with Western Europe

    It is becoming increasingly obvious that more and more Western European nations are doing all in their power to turn away from supporting Israel – industrially, economically, politically - whereas Eastern Europe is just the opposite.

  • What two weird prophets taught me about God

    Epic battles with false prophets, receiving food from birds, administering healing by lying on top of dead people, delivering curses resulting in brutal bear-mauling, and going to heaven in whirlwind of fiery chariots and horses... Elijah and Elisha\'s stories in the book of 1 and 2 Kings just seem, well, strange.

  • Whitsundays Laguna Quays Respite missions cottage – 6 years

    The Whitsundays missionary respite cottage for missionaries, mission and church full-time personnel developed by Well-Being Australia at Laguna Quays Respite is in its sixth year. This is being celebrated with an updated web site http://www.bushorchestra.com/respite

  • Young writer conferences in 2017 and 2018 – Sunshine Coast and Auckland

    The 2016 young writers conference and the awards once again illustrated what a splendid group of young people make up the Press Service International young writer contingent.

  • Stay at home mums have a job to do

    At 3am I am roused from a blissfully deep sleep by the cries of my son. I savour the warmth of my bed, nestled in between the soft flannelette sheets. My husband sighs next to me and we argue silently about who will get up.