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My top mental health maintenance tips and the science to back them up
In my life I have battled with anxiety and OCD. At times these have seemed completely consuming and at others a more of a background noise.
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Accidental Witchcraft
The instructions of the Facebook event had led me to a bonfire in a park. I joined the group of strangers sitting in the warm glow and it wasn’t long before I realized that many of those whom I was chatting with were involved in the occult.
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Schmick, Kitsch, Sophistication, Shemozzle
For many today the current ‘Church’ is a theatre, often inside an industrial warehouse. Worship is focused on the performance of the event and artistry in creating a cinema experience. The darkness forces the focus on the stage and the actors upon it.
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What do you do when a dream dies?
I was fired from the job I loved. It was my fault. And I hated myself for it.
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Art - Waiporoporo koru - “Purple koru/spiral”
I painted the piece some years ago while I was studying youth work through praxis. We had been learning about bi-culturalism and how that informs our practise with young people.
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People are not good enough, what do we need?
I think we want to believe that people are ultimately good. It is more comfortable to think that evil is limited to a select few bad guys in the world who are responsible for all of it, and hence that average people are fine.
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Hello or hallow?
I’ll admit I don’t always have God at the forefront of my mind, even when I’m reading the Bible or saying a prayer. Sometimes I do these things because I know it’s good for me, and other times it’s to tick the box or because of peer pressure.
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The New Religion – Politics
A new religion has swept the globe and it has almost more followers than all other religions combined: Politics. Politics is the new religion, and it has set itself up as a golden-idol in the hearts of millions around the world.
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How to leave a church
There’s no ‘correct’ way to leave a church. No perfect time to move on. Countless young people I have met describe to me a span of time they have spent ‘church-hopping’, and when I ask why this has been the case, they explain to me the ways they’ve been hurt by a certain church they used to be committed to – one that they poured their hearts into and felt they had been burned by in the end.
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Lazy rapture living
Late last year a work colleague and I started discussing end-time theology. The discussion was centred around the rapture and whether Christians would be raptured before, during or after the tribulation.
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Pride drives it out
My wife said: ‘you did a good job cleaning up the side’. A great uplifting compliment of recognition and appreciation.
