Wherever we go…working with congregations and denominational systems, we have come to one important conclusion about what is essential for the formation of missional congregations and denominational systems at this point in time - we need a new approach to leadership. In meetings with pastoral teams and denominational executives we come away, time after […]

In a couple of weeks we are going to be involved in a missional leadership workshop which is running as a part of Future Directions 2004, a consultation process with our denomination and its member churches.
Phil is going to be providing input to an elective, and otherwise the key note speaker is Alan Roxburgh. […]

I find it ironic that despite Ward’s assertion that liquid church should not focus on gatherings, it seems to me, that when he moves into describing the practical nature of liquid church there is an emphasis on events. It is true that the events proposed are substantially different to having the worshiping congregation as central. […]

I have been watching this program for a while now. For a couple of years I have been watching the development of Groove which I think shows great promise. In the past I have found it runs very slowly on underpowered machines and seemed to be a little bloated. But, having not touched it for […]

For those that are interested, this is a marked up copy of the Mark Latham speech (still haven’t figured out a nickname for him) to the Labor Conference yesterday showing all of the changes and differences between the various drafts.
I can’t believe they left out this line:

First he had core and non-core promises. Now […]

There has been a little bit of discussion around the traps about the idea of women in ministry (see here and here and here and here for a start) and it has prompted me to come out of the closet.

In this post I attempted to outline some of the ironic elements of the Hutton report and the subsequent resignations of the chairman of the BBC and the victorious proclaiming by Tony Blair that he told the truth. Seriously, Tony you either lied or got it wrong. You misled us because what you said was […]

“There is not so much a crisis in the Church today, as much as a great challenge, laid down by the world for the Church - and a great opportunity for her. The world thinks that it can do without God; but in fact, it is showing forth how thirsty it is for God, without […]

So, let me get this right. The BBC had sources that told them that British Government had ’sexed’ up the weapons of mass destruction 45 minutes readiness claim. Ok, so they are quite rightly getting told off and even their chairman has resigned saying that there is an honourable tradition in the UK that whoever […]

Today, in part of a continuing argument about the naming of kitchen utensils, Phil sent me this link which supposedly clearly decides that a combination fork/spoon is clearly a spork, rather than a splayd.
The Wikipedia seems to indicate that the difference between a spork and a splade (sic) is that a splade has a sharp […]