Have you ever tried praying and received no answer? Have you been told that if you really really pray hard, you will see a change in your life or even hear someone or Someone responding? I can believe as intensely as the next guy and I have even been [...]
I live in an acceptably bucolic corner of the West Coast rainforest called the Sunshine Coast. I look out over Agamemnon Channel and live comfortably and well. Our community includes people of varying socio-economic means, but there are some things we all have in common; the infrastructure which supports [...]
There are a great number of experiences in the panoply of male (and occasionally female) rituals to which I have never been privy. That is not to say I am unfamiliar with them; on the contrary I am frequently made aware of their existence on the fringe of my [...]
When I was a young lad in my late teens, circa 1967, it was commonly understood that one should not trust anyone over the age of 30; and over the years we 'baby-boomers, as we came to be known, were increasingly lauded and eventually castigated for our abilities to [...]