by Peter Barfoot | Nov 18, 2025 | Blog
Some time ago, a memory came to mind of droving cattle to a railhead in Central Queensland. I was aged fifteen at the time. The farmer I worked for told me to saddle up and help drive a herd of cattle miles into the town of Biloela. No drama occurred along the way,...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 18, 2025 | Blog
Having edited a newspaper in which I gave every political party a fair go, decades later I thought it would be a good thing to publish a Christian magazine in which evangelists and pastors could have equal space. One Christian leader said to me: “You...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 13, 2025 | Blog
With all due respect to my friends in the USA, I just cain’t…er, can’t…share your love for singing the blues. It must be hard to lose your girl to your best friend and your dog as well on the day your horse dies. But with Jesus as my joy and...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 13, 2025 | Blog
“Only the lonely…” sang Roy Orbison. “Only” suggested extreme loneliness. Solitary is not the same; a solitary person can live alone quite happily. “Fear not, only believe,” said Jesus to the devastated Jairus, whose only...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 12, 2025 | Blog
What’s a Wagga Wagga? What comes to mind when you hear the names Wooloomooloo and Goondawindi? Yes, these are indiginous names, but what do they mean? If you are speaking them without knowing what they mean, you are speaking in an unknown tongue! Sure, that...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 11, 2025 | Blog
I will never forget the site where the Bataan Death March ended, on the island of Luzon in the Republic of the Philippines. The late John Cedergren, a fine American missionary and former US paratrooper, drove me there in the late 1980s. A week later, two Americans who...