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Editorial

Site-Manager · September 10, 2015December 18, 2015

Welcome to this Spring 2015 issue of The New Age along with the hope that you will enjoy reading it. One thing in this issue is a fuller coverage than usual of Society reports, which leads me to think that one of the uses of a periodical like The New Age is to help people …

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Rev Christopher Hasler

Site-Manager · September 10, 2015December 18, 2015

Christopher Hasler was a New Church minister for over fifty years, serving mainly in Britain, but also elsewhere, and for four years between 1960 and 1964, in the Brisbane Society, and for some of those years he served as the President of the New Church in Australia. Older people in the New Church will remember …

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“Cain and Abel”

Site-Manager · September 10, 2015December 18, 2015

Read Genesis 4.1-16. This story is about the first murder, how Cain slew his brother Abel. It is told in sixteen verses yet its consequences are still going on, on a daily basis. As we read it, all sorts of questions arise: Up to now the Bible only mentions four people, so where did Cain …

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The Future

Site-Manager · September 10, 2015December 18, 2015

What keeps you up at night? Is it the anticipation of another great day?! Or is it the worry of impending doom? I suspect for most of us, it is more the latter than the former. What often gives me a restless night is the worry that I’m going to oversleep and miss my flight. …

Society News

Site-Manager · September 10, 2015December 18, 2015

ADELAIDE New Church Day was celebrated on June 21st (closest Sunday) . Lay led by Randall Rabone and as usual attracted a larger than usual congregation who enjoyed the shared meal afterwards in the Church hall. At the service on September 27th we will be remembering Joan Bowley, Joan and Bill were part of The Adelaide …

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‘Charity’ – a poem by Elizabeth Medgyes

Site-Manager · September 10, 2015December 18, 2015

Elizabeth is a member of the Melbourne New Church and has been for many years. She writes extensively, both prose and poetry. She originally came to Australia from Budapest. “CHARITY” Charity consists of kindness, Giving care, being unselfish, Bestowing others with your skill, Ability of good doing, to look after, It is love and respect …

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Unto God

Site-Manager · September 10, 2015December 18, 2015

I was reading through a set of answers which were involved in translating passages from Biblical Hebrew to English. There were seven students, over in American somewhere. Good translators too. But one seemed to have the edge on the others… She always used the word ‘unto’ in her translating while all the others just wrote …

Presidents Message

Site-Manager · September 10, 2015December 18, 2015

The tragedy of refugees from Syria, Iraq and elsewhere fleeing their homes, taking their families and little else, is currently with us. The dilemma of how to best deal with this several hundred thousands of people problem is still unsolved by governments and organisations. Meanwhile these human beings travel north west through south east Europe …

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Editorial

Site-Manager · June 18, 2015September 10, 2015

This issue of The New Age comes out during June. For the worldwide organised New Church and for many people in that and for many people not in that but in connection with the Heavenly Doctrines, it is a time in the year when we specifically think about the revelation of new teaching given by …

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Rev. Chris Skinner

Site-Manager · June 18, 2015September 10, 2015

Chris was a minister in the New Church in Australia, the first, I believe, to have that distinction of being trained and ordained here. While he was extremely serious about the place and purpose of ministry, he was unchanged by it and must rank as one of the most approachable and friendly people you would …