You have to laugh — otherwise you’d cry — when you look at the chaotic political scene in New Zealand and elsewhere, Europe particularly.

Without doubt, Jesus was full of compassion for those he met.

As I sit at my computer with a sore throat and a runny nose, coughing and spluttering and feeling generally miserable,

I once heard someone say that if the issue of absent fathers was a medical disease, governments would be calling it an epidemic and would be throwing millions of dollars at it to find the cure.

On the mantelpiece in the lounge of my home sits a flat, nearly-oval stone, about 10cm by 8cm.

Redefining bad behavior -

Back in the 1970s, acclaimed psychiatrist Karl Menninger wrote a classic book, Whatever Became of Sin?