The Anglican church is on the list for resale.

Do we feel sad, of course, do we wonder why it was chosen?

Maybe it’s because we are few in number, or maybe the Bishop just doesn’t like stained glass windows.

But whatever the reason, we are still children of God.

And we will continue to pray for sanity to rule.

If we lived in China, we would have underground churches, because there Christianity is banned.

The people who attend the underground churches are severely punished but that doesn’t stop them worshipping The Lord.

Here we have freedom to worship but it’s not The Lord that is worshipped it is money, sport, and many other things.

If we found ourselves under persecution things would change and we would again see our churches full and people loving to come to worship The Lord and find real joy and fulfilment.

Then no one would want to tear down or sell our churches.

We are not alone of course, many churches are on the hatchet man’s list already and it seems many more are to be put on the list.

Shame, shame, shame.

Wake up people, it’s time to realise the price Jesus paid by His death on the cross for you all, so that you could enjoy freedom.

For rest assured persecution will come.

Veronica J Davies, Beaconsfield.

OLDEN day songs. I love our music from the ‘50s and ‘60s, as music in those days was understandable.

But as I was listening to them the other day, I realised how life has changed.

The songs Puppet on a String and I want to be Bobby’s girl now so grates my liver.

The songs are all about women being submissive and thinking that a man is all they need.

I am not a feminist by any means, but I am a woman who understands who I am.

I could not love a man that is happy with me being a minion, like a puppet.

I would never think that my life’s ambition would be to be a man’s girl.

My ambition far outweighs that simplicity of being a puppet or a girl.

I think that in the great olden days, things were different, and men plus women had different ideas of life and its expectations.

I am pleased to be in the 21st century where we can be happy with or without men.

I am also sure this is now prevalent with males.

Times are a changing.

Is this a good thing?

Felicity O’Neill, Deloraine.

THE violence perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza is entirely unacceptable.

Seventy years ago Palestinians were pushed out of their homeland to make way for the new nation-state of Israel.

It justified its actions by stating that the Holocaust provided “the licence to occupy” this land.

Now it seems as though a people who were so brutalised at the hands of the Nazis in World War II are in a position to mete out brutality on the very people whose land they now occupy.

The relocation of the United States embassy to Jerusalem appears to have heightened this urge to mistreat the original inhabitants.

The recent deaths of dozens of Palestinians and the wounding of hundreds of others reflects poorly on a country which values its democracy and the rule of law.

The United Nations is best placed to arbitrate this dispute and to help bring about a two-state solution.

Ed Sianski, West Moonah.

AM I the only one who remembers a time before governments revoked their social responsibility and provided care for those less fortunate? 

When utilities were guaranteed to those struggling? 

This was before all care was ditched to the lowest cost provider from the private sector; it is obvious except to governments that the system is deeply flawed and failing. 

We are told we have boom times here, yet it is the private sector being urged to provide housing via web site, this is failure writ large.

Peter Taylor, Midway Point.

I DO not see what all the fuss is about when it comes to overseas companies buying Australian farmland.

At least they are paying for it. The British didn't.

Leon Cooper, St Leonards.

Reference flight Jetstar JQ730, Launceston to Melbourne, May 16.

We preceded a young new mum down approximately 30 steep steps from the aircraft to the tarmac.

Behind us we suddenly notice the mother, three-month-old babe in arms, a heavy cabin case in the other hand.

It was left up to us to immediately help her down while Jetstar cabin and ground staff, at least four to five of them, looked on.

The cabin attendant had the gall to follow her down to give her back her purse she had left on board, then he returned to the aircraft without helping her the rest of the way down.

The steps and tarmac were wet from rain.

Shame on you Jetstar, and shame on your staff that day.

We helped her down even though we are 75-years-plus with gerity arthritis and dicky knees.

You have lost us Jetstar.

John and Dian Dyer, Port Sorell.