The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Story – podcast

Today, Sunday 16th March on Songs of Hope, at 8:45 am we heard the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He was a German pastor and theologian who resisted the Nazis in the 1930s. It cost him his life by execution. This segment was prepared and presented by our Songs of Hope pastor Chris Whiting. Segment play time is 6 minutes. Click

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Film review: TRACKS, from Built For Speed

Tracks, starring Mia Wasikowska, dramatises Robyn Davidson’s best-selling book which chronicled her epic 1,700 kilometre journey from Alice Springs to Uluru and the Indian Ocean in 1977. Davidson trekked on foot with four camels carrying supplies and her dog Diggity as company.  Reluctantly, she allowed awkward American National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver) to meet up with her every

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Film review: WOLF CREEK 2, from Built For Speed

The first Wolf Creek film was a landmark in Australian horror cinema, taking what could have been a mindless slasher or torture porn scenario and turning it into a tense, well-acted, superbly-shot, genuinely menacing slow-burn thriller; it did for slasher movies what Alien did for sci-fi horror.  Based loosely on both the Ivan Milat and Bradley Murdoch cases, Wolf Creek

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The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Story

Tune in tomorrow 16th March to Songs of Hope at 8:45 am to hear the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the nazis during world war 2. Segment prepared and presented by local pastor Chris Whiting. Segment play time is 6 minutes. Songs of Hope also features a sermon by local pastor Mark Durie who speaks on the topic “Jesus

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Film review: NEBRASKA, from Built For Speed

Nebraska is exactly the sort of film that generates instant Oscar buzz, a quirky yet solemn tale of crumbling dreams and redemption steeped in Americana and anchored by an idiosyncratic Becket-esque performance. Bruce Dern plays irascible scraggly-haired old drunk Woodrow Grant who, sadly, floats in a state between retirement and encroaching dementia. Mistakenly believing that a sweepstakes letter guarantees him

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