There is a theory around that people’s attention spans have grown shorter, so they won’t listen to long talks or sermons any more. It’s a theory that visiting English preacher, Nigel Styles, doesn’t subscribe to.
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How to preach a binge-worthy sermon
A missionary from the Democratic Republic of Congo shares on how to respond to Corona culture shock
The culture in Australia – our way of life – has changed dramatically since the onset of COVID-19, and we haven’t travelled anywhere! As a nation we are in culture shock.
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Waiting – Susan An
We are not a culture that is adept at waiting. Whenever we are in a queue, most people whip out their phones to entertain themselves. A popular app was ‘Beat the Q’, which let you order coffee on the way so that when you arrived, it would be waiting for you. Australia used to have the highest rate of pirating movies and TV shows because of the delay between the premiere overseas and it being legally available here.
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Can you imagine? – Angus Martin
Imagine the threat of a dangerous disease. Imagine the anxiety about becoming infected, the constant stress eating away at you. Imagine what it could do to your family, what it would do to your social life. Can you imagine? Maybe you don’t have to.
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Anglicans and pandemics: 101 years on – Bronwyn Windsor
This is not the first time that the ACR has seen a pandemic. From 1880, the Church Record, as it was known, reported on all the news relating to the Anglican Church in Australia and New Zealand. So I did a bit of research and trawled through the archives to find out what the Church Record said about the 1919 influenza epidemic. I discovered that the ACR has ‘seen this movie before’ and has some wise advice for us today.
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Christians and Pandemics through the Ages (260, 1347, 1665,…2020) – Matthew Payne
Until the rise of modern medicine, western civilisation experienced pandemics very regularly. The best-known example is the notorious ‘Black Death’, a strain of bubonic plague that swept through Europe between 1347-1351, killing about a third of the continent’s inhabitants in the process.
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