Today I had a novel experience. I was asked to give a talk about my job and my career path to a group of year 10 students (about 14/15 years old) as part of a careers day. In my own mind, it hasn’t been that long since I was that age.
Anyway, […]

Signposts proudly brings you the next in the Sim line of computer games - SimChurch.
The Goal of SimChurch
SimChurch makes you the Senior Minister (SM) of a large Church. Acting as the SM, players must design contemporary worship services, maintain facilities, keep the elders and board happy, maintain satisfaction levels for members, and balance […]

“Spirituality”, Gustavo writes, “is like living water that springs up in the very depths of the experience of faith.” To drink from your own well is to live your own life in the Spirit of Jesus as you have encountered him in your concrete historical reality. This has nothing to do with abstract opinions, convinctions […]

Phil said that I would claim to have predicted the appointment of the new governor general. Well I did predict it.
So let’s see how my predictions matched up:
1. Male
Yep. Major-General Michael Jeffrey does drive on the blue side of the fence.
2. Conservative
Well, all indications are yes. As WA governor, he was forced […]

26% of the world are denied access to clean water and 3/4 of these also lack proper sanitation
6,000 children die everyday from diseases associated with a lack of access to safe drinking water and inadequate sanitation
By 2050 1/2 of the world’s population will be living without direct access to fresh water

Cheers to both Waileia and Richard Bott who have both recently added signposts to their respective blogrolls.
A heads up also to ze-al who blogrolled us some time ago, but whom I have neglected to acknowledge.

You take the blue pill, the story ends… you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland and Il show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Morpheus
We have received some feedback that some people find it difficult to read our white […]

So, an ex military man had been appointed our new governor general. Someone who was also a former state governor.
Well surprise, surprise - a nice conservative choice by our man of steel. But, as Howard says again, it is irrelevant what we think.
(Dan is going to be crowing about this one - she will say […]

This continues the images from Charles Bayers’ book - A resurrected Church.
The images so far have been:

leadership
marginalized
growth
salvation

Christendom - sees a need to keep itself well positioned within the dominant society.
Post-Christendom - is willing to live on the margins of society
Bayer argues that a Christendom church lives under the protective umbrella of its society.
“Christian […]

Michael Leunig is a cartoonist, poet, philospher - humourist of the soul says the blurb on the back of the dvd. This does not even begin to tap into what place Leunig has in Australia. He is the voice of the soul in Australia.
I have watched most of the dvd. But, I cannot say that […]