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| On Saturday 12th April 2008 between 2 and 5 pm, the CRA and Missions Interlink are jointly sponsoring a special seminar on what we can learn from research in relation to mission and ministry. Four international speakers will present their observations. MORE...
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| Building Stronger Communities has been written by Philip Hughes, Alan Black, Peter Kaldor, John Bellamy and Keith Castle and published by University of NSW Press. The book is an accessible handbook for all people involved in building communities. MORE...
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| The 5th Lausanne Researchers' Conference will be held at the Geelong Conference Centre, near Melbourne, Australia.
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| A new shop is now open on this website. Click the 'Online Shop' above. You can buy books and pay subscriptions through the shop which has a direct and secure link to the bank for credit card transactions. It will also give access to a variety of E-books, occasional papers and copies of Pointers which you will be able to download. MORE...
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| The fifth Lausanne Researcher's Conference was held last month with great success. Around sixty interested attendees came from around the world to participate. If you are interested, some of the papers presented are now published on the Lausanne Researcher's International Network website: MORE...
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| Barney Zwartz, the religion editor of The Age, launched the book Putting Life Together on 21st March 2007. He suggested that the book provides the factual basis for many things that we know intuitively, but does much more than that. For example, Barney Zwartz said he had no intuition that one in five young people are in a state close to despair. MORE...
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| Passing on the faith to the next generation has been an on-going challenge for the Church, for Christian families and faith-based schools. Now the churches of Australia are finding it even harder to meet the challenge.
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More than 400 articles have appeared in Pointers in its sixteen years of production since 1990. These have been re-formatted and placed on one CD-Rom. The CD-Rom allows users to search for material under title, author, issue, or any word or phrase. Full .pdf versions of all past editions of Pointers are also contained on the CD-Rom.
| Title |
Pointers Archive 1990-2006 |
| Editor |
Phillip Hughes |
| Author |
Tim Hughes |
| RRP |
55.00 |
| Posting in Australia |
4.00 |
| Posting Overseas |
10.00 |
| Publisher |
Christian Research Association |
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CD-ROM |
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| The first presentation at the Youth Spirituality Roundtable was given by Dr Philip Hughes. He outlined some major findings from the research on how young people put life together and explored some of the implications. His presentation can be downloaded from this site.
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How do young people between the ages of 13 and 24 years put life together? What do they value in life? What part does religion and spirituality play in their lives? Based on extensive interviews and surveys over 4 years, undertaken by the Christian Research Association in conjunction with researchers from the Australian Catholic University and Monash University, this book provides a detailed and well-founded picture of Australian young people. MORE...
| Title |
Putting Life Together |
| Author |
Phillip Hughes |
| ISBN |
978-1-875138-07-4 |
| RRP |
$35.00 |
| Posting in Australia |
$4.00 |
| Posting Overseas |
$10 |
| Publisher |
CRA /Fairfield Press |
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