How to count your blessings
This is one of the nicest e-mails of its kind I have ever received. It starts off with the introduction: […]
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Your Letters
Parable of the sower’s relevance
From Anthony J Sturges, Johannesburg I was amazed at the relevance of the parable of the sower, which we read
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Editorials Editorials 2011
Don’t shut the doors
Some years ago The Southern Cross learned of an inmate in a South African prison who decided to convert to
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Perspectives Shackleton
Why pre-marital sex is wrong
Young Catholics have little problem accepting that extra-marital sex is wrong because it is a violation of the permanent covenant
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A tale of two people
I have two stories to tell you today. They come from a Southern Cross reader who is as good at
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St Peter would weep at Church today
There is a lovely story in a devotional booklet called Our Daily Bread about a convert to Christianity who was
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Books Reviews
Changing sex in the Bible
UNPROTECTED TEXTS: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire, by Jennifer Wright Knust. HarperOne, San Francisco. 2011. 343 pp.
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Your Letters
Sex marketing?
From Annabel Horn, Cape Town While praying outside a place of abortion recently, I talked to employees of the clinic
Editorials Editorials 2011
Harry Potter and the Christian connection
The release this month of the final movie in the Harry Potter franchise has revived the inevitable debate about whether
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