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Articles Rev Dr Karl Deenick
2 Corinthians always makes it onto my list

A few times over lunches or dinners at SMBC someone has asked a question like: “If you were trapped on a deserted island and...

John Wesley preaching to gathered crowd in 18th century Methodist revival meeting, historical engraving illustration
Articles Rev Dr Ian Maddock
John Wesley: Dignity in simplicity

Wesley’s natural habitats were the libraries and the lecture halls of Oxford, not the English coal mining towns of Bristol and Newcastle where he...

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Articles Anna Brotherson
Work: A chasing after the wind?

There’s a story about a young fisherman sitting on a beach on a sunny day, looking out over the rolling waves, listening to the...

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Articles Dr Alan Thompson
Is there more to thankfulness?

When I was studying at a seminary in Chicago, I got to know an overseas student who I seemed to cross paths with regularly...

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Articles Dr Mark Stephens
Don’t sip the Bible. Binge it.

The shuffle button. We’re all familiar with the shuffle button. When you open up Spotify, or whichever music app takes your fancy, there’s nearly...

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Stories SMBC
Georg Haemmerle: God is at work in Dornbirn Austria

SMBC graduate Georg Haemmerle reflects on how his theological training at SMBC gave him solid foundations for his children's and youth ministry in his...

Old black and white photo of Cunningham and Morton preparing their plane for loading at Shell’s Gore Bay Wharf, Sydney.
Stories Rev Anthony Brammall
Ray Cunningham: Forty-two years and four languages

From the Kokoda Track and Borneo during World War II to SMBC and back again, Ray Cunningham’s well lived 100 years shows the value...

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Stories SMBC
Working Together in West Africa

From SMBC classroom to West Africa took 10 years for these graduates. Along the many twists and turns of their journey a local proverb...

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