I have been reflecting lately on the rising use of labels appealing to patriotism, nationalism or even our identity as Christians. Darren’s blog has included a discussion of him being labelled “anti-american”. Lately everyone seems to be described as Anti-American, Anti-War, Against Saddam, against, anti, un, not.
Today’s paper had an article of what […]

As we move closer to the invasion of Iraq, I have a growing sense that we are on a train that isn’t stopping at any stations. There is an inevitablity about the looming war. At a recent seminar I attended yesterday with Christine and Tom Sine (authors of mustard seed v’s mcworld), Tom mentioned […]

There was an interesting article in this morning’s Age newspaper written by Pamela Bone, questioning the “moral certainty” of the recent wave of peace protestors (which I guess includes us)
She said in part:
The best hope of avoiding war, still, is to get a strong and unambiguous second resolution from the UN Security Council ordering Iraq […]

Our dog Romero is named after Oscar Romero, a hero of the faith for both of us. Tonight in my reading, I came across these words spoken in his very last sermon, just moments before his death:
Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains […]

I had thai pumpkin soup for lunch today. It was delicious. I ordered a bowl from the café owner and sat down to wait for it to appear before me.
The café was busy with lots of people coming and giving their orders for focaccias and sandwiches and, of course, thai pumpkin soup. […]

I have always believed that satire can be the most devastating weapon in the right hands. Sometimes it takes a little bit of satire to hold up a mirror to our actions and to reveal the true situation. We desperately need people who have the ability to shine the torch on the dark places that […]

We are all familiar with franchises in our society. The franchise model is one which has become increasingly common in recent years in western capitalist societies. No longer do you need to start your own business or come up with your own ideas. Instead, you can capitalise on the good products or […]

Dan was talking about hinge generations a couple of days ago. This quote is one that has been a motivating force in the formation of our new Church at Northern.
“We are the people of the parenthesis – at the end of one era but not quite at the beginning of the next one. Maps no […]

A letter to the Age newspaper today says
If there were 200,000 protesters in Melbourne of Friday - which I doubt - then there were 200,000 traitors. They should be damn well ashamed of themselves for betraying the trust of our service men and women who will possibly become engaged in the elimination of a tyrant, […]

More random musings on the state of the world. Today I read that Shane Warne is considering calling in his psychologist to explain how the leg-spinner’s weight problems led to him taking a banned drug (a diuretic).
Is this for real? Is this news? Whatever you think of Shane Warne (I personally think […]