Dr. Ken Byrne Corporate Psychologist tells the Other Cheek how to be interviewed. Byrne is co-author with Peter Corney of Hiring Right, First Time: A Practical Guide to Staffing Christian Organisations. Introduction You found the ideal job and carefully crafted… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column At the risk of offending those who think meeting places, aka churches, should be devoid of art, Obadiah was sitting in the chapel at Cabrini Hospital in Melbourne the other day. He has spent long days… Continue Reading
Many NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) participants find it even harder than everyone else in the middle of a housing crisis to find a place to live. Many need houses able to take a wheelchair, or a place built robustly… Continue Reading
Erik Tryggestad via Religion Unplugged Ose Ehimare was 24 weeks pregnant when she boarded a plane in Nigeria for her first-ever international flight. She was alone and more than a bit apprehensive about the 6,000-mile journey, but she had no… Continue Reading
Adelaide pastor Des Smith has written a book, “The Cheerful Giver’. It’s one of those Bible phrases constantly in danger of being a cliché. So what can Smith do to rescue it? The Other Chhek interviewed him and found out.… Continue Reading
Adelaide reader Ben White brings a devotional. So I read this Scripture and it made me give consideration to the idea of what we allow ourselves to dwell upon or focus on is probably a lot more important than we… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column C. S. Lewis’ puddle: In “The Weight of Glory,” C. S. Lewis mentions that we are like children, happy to splash about in mud puddles even though we’ve been offered a holiday at sea. Christian preaching… Continue Reading
Given the noise from the US Presidential campaign, one understandable reaction might be that there’s been too much linking of the Bible with politics – and that maybe it’s time to take a break from linking the two. Politics appears… Continue Reading
It was not only the Jewish religion that recoiled and rethought things after the Holocaust. Jurgen Moltmann, the highly regarded German theologian who died this week aged 98, was of the generation of Christian writers who faced up to the… Continue Reading
Union dues: It was a pressured day in The Sydney Morning Herald newsroom, as it was during a strike. “You don’t like being here, do you?” one of the paper’s deputy editors asked. “Your making that obvious.” It was Obadiah’s… Continue Reading