COVID-19’s Rude Awakening Boosted Community

COVID-19’s Rude Awakening Boosted Community

We are enduring a rude awakening to realities our everyday life in Australia allows us to ignore. We are discovering things that much of the “majority world” knew all along and lives with all the time. We are realizing that our so-called “normal” is in fact an...
Breadmaking Fosters Virtual Community During Lock-Down

Breadmaking Fosters Virtual Community During Lock-Down

Leaving isolation after a long period of lock-down and social isolation was a pleasant end to an otherwise challenging year. In Melbourne, Australia, we are all so pleased to be out of “iso” — the 112-days of lock-down and social isolation that ended in late October...
Profiles in Goodwill: Frank Rees

Profiles in Goodwill: Frank Rees

Frank Rees is a Baptist pastor in Melbourne, Australia, and an associate professor at the University of Divinity. 1. Where did you grow up? The rural town of Moe, a poor industrial workers’ town in Victoria, Australia. 2. What is your favorite verse, book or...