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The AV Leader Coup D'Etat

The AV Leader Coup D'Etat

How to take over your churches AV department? And no I don\'t mean via Coup D\'Etat. What I\'m talking about is, what do you do when you are replacing someone when they are at the end of their time as leader of the AV ministry..

  • To stay or to go: the faces of the Syrian war

    The war in Syria has raged for five years. In the past 12 months, two pictures have grabbed the world\'s attention like no other. They are those of Aylan Kurdi and Omran Daqneesh.

  • Was Sonia Kruger right?

    No, she wasn\'t. Increase in terrorism or not, banning Muslim immigration into Australia wouldn\'t prevent fundamentalist acts, it would increase them exponentially.

  • Who are you voting for?

    If there\'s one thing that being in the United States in the middle of an election teaches you—it\'s all propaganda.

  • Dear coeliac disease and dairy intolerance

    I have been the unfortunate bearer of both of you for the past year and a half. You are my bane. And you have been hanging around me for my entire life. Unfortunately, you make me feel very sick and you don\'t seem to be nicking off any time soon, so feel free to hear me out on this one...

  • Why we need to stop body-shaming ourselves

    I was going through my Instagram feed when I came across a picture of Anne Hathaway, an actress I follow on social media. One of her first movies, The Princess Diaries, became an all-time favourite movie of mine, and I\'ve followed her work ever since then.

  • 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.

  • '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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Comfortable Christianity

    I\'m woken by the noise of popping, whether from my sore back or from my bunk bed I\'m not quite sure. Stumbling out of the room, I dodge small talk from my fellow housemates who enjoy mornings more than I do. The chilly winter\'s morning is met with equally cold water sputtering from the shower. Through chattering teeth I complain to God that I am entitled to better conditions.