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December 22, 2006
by Rodney Olsen
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Louise Kelman is a comedy performer who joins me on 98.5 Sonshine FM each Wednesday morning to discuss some of the strange but true news stories that have hit the headlines over the past week. It’s great to just spend time chatting and having a good laugh.

This week we talked about the lead up to Christmas and the wonderful Road to Bethlehem that we’d both experienced last week.

If you want to hear what we got up to this week you can click here to listen. The audio file will open in another window so you can continue browsing while you listen.

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Christmas Quiz

December 20, 2006
by Rodney Olsen
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How many wise men visited Jesus? Did they visit Jesus in a stable?

How did Joseph and Mary get to Bethlehem?

Who was the first person to celebrate Christmas with a Christmas Tree?

Does the Bible mention an innkeeper in the Christmas story?

My regular Wednesday morning guest on 98.5 Sonshine FM is Ross Clifford is the Principal of Morling College in New South Wales and current President of the Baptist Union of Australia. Each week we chat about a range of issues relating to spirituality and belief.

This morning Ross asked me a range of questions regarding Christmas and in particular the first Christmas as described in the Bible.

How well do you know the story? Do you know the real story or only what has been passed down through the years?

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A teachable moment

December 19, 2006
by Rodney Olsen
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Tony from Don’t Call Me Veronica stumbled upon a teachable moment. We’re still not sure who was doing the teaching and who was doing the learning.

His five year old son has realised that advertising doesn’t always give us the whole truth. Please take a minute or two to check out Tony’s post. You’ll be glad you did.

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An early Christmas

December 19, 2006
by Rodney Olsen
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You hear so much these days about avoiding the Christmas rush. We did just that last night.

We might have been a week early but we got together with my side of the family to celebrate Christmas together. Most of us will be spending time with in-laws on the day itself so we decided to get together for a barbecue last night.

I’m the youngest of five so by the time we squeeze the five of us into a room with spouses and kids there’s not enough room to swing a cat. (Not that I condone that kind of behaviour anyway.)

There was some very tasty food, lovely gifts exchanged, carols playing on the stereo and some wonderful conversation. It’s always great to watch our kids interacting with their cousins.

I think we might have to make this a regular thing. I like the idea of having an entire week to recover from one celebration before we start on the next one.

How do you go about catching up with your extended family during the Christmas season? Do you do it all in one day with breakfast, lunch and dinner all spent with different family members? Do you spread the festive cheer over a few days? Do you alternate each year so that everyone gets a turn at hosting family for Christmas?

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Person of the Year

December 18, 2006
by Rodney Olsen
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I didn’t want to be the only blogger on the planet to miss posting on this story.

Time Magazine has named YOU as their Person of the Year.

If you haven’t caught up on the details you can check out their story by clicking here.

They’re pretty much saying that we all now have the opportunity to shape our world by publishing on-line. We have blogs, YouTube and so many other ways to interact on a world scale so we have now all become Person of the Year.

I must say that this is clever marketing at its best. Surely they would have known that as soon as they bestowed this honour upon us, we’d immediately reach for our keyboards and publish the details. We want everyone to know that we’ve reached this lofty height and that we’re all so incredibly important. We must be, Time said so. Instantly they have millions of dollars worth of advertising spreading across the globe absolutely free.

Ironically we’re all now plugging the technology that we’re supposed to be replacing. The print medium may be suffering from the easy access to information on-line but Time has managed to use the internet to throw the spotlight back onto themselves. Brilliant.

My vote for the real person of the year? Whoever it was that came up with the idea to make the rest of us Person of the Year.

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