Articles
Finished with fakery
No place for masks at the local bakery. Can we sit and chat for a while? Would that be okay? I mean, in an ideal world, you and I would be hanging out at Bourke Street Bakery right now. The guy at th...
Beyond community
New film Military Wives shows that sometimes, a shared understanding of life’s pressures is not enough. There are some films that male reviewers watch which they feel somewhat...
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Moving forwards
Tammi Parsons shares how her basketball team has helped her through her battle with post-traumatic stress disorder. My name is Tammi Parsons. I am 39 years old. I have been married for 10 years to th...
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A duty to shine
Author, speaker and educator Dianne Todaro-Wells says the Salvos saved her life. Thirty-six years ago, successful international author, speaker and educator Dianne Todaro-Wells finally found the help...
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Let's talk about love
Where does God fit into the conversation? Love is all around us. We encounter the word incessantly, pouring out of our televisions, our radios, splashed across newspaper headlines and peppering...
Every piece counts
From a messy pile of pieces, a beautiful picture can emerge. A valuable lesson to take into the new year came to me on a busy morning while clearing all the extra bits and pieces in a drawer of a des...
It all began with a movie
The journey from a horrified teenager to a passionate peacemaker. I remember where I was when I truly began to care about injustice in the world, especially when it came to race relations and the bro...
Finding peace
After years of seeking to understand religion, Mounib has found peace in God, and hope and a family through the Salvos. I was born and grew up in Pakistan, in a Sunni Muslim family. My great-grandfat...
Travelling light
The art of letting go. I’m knee-deep in stuff collected over many years of doing ‘life’. The task at hand is to discard the unusable, pass on the recyclable and pack the rest. It...
The Professor and the Madman
The solution to our problems doesn’t rest with us. If you are tired, you can rest. If you are sick, you can go to the doctor. If you are struggling with someone, you can reason with them...