Three letters which would strike fear into the most “churchy” of people. This weekend our denominational body in Victoria and Tasmania has its AGM. And, as the chair of the board, I am stuck smack bang in the middle.
In my experience, these sorts of meeting tend to end up with people taking pot […]

An article in the Australian today puts the case for gay marriage:

Liberal senator Guy Barnett, writing on this page on Tuesday, says this is necessary because marriage is “a bedrock institution” that “has endured for thousands of years” and shouldn’t be updated. Barnett is wrong. Between cultures and over time, the meaning of marriage has […]

It is worth checking out saint gaz, a new blog I found through Hamo. He describes his new church plant “Myriad” (great name actually, we might steal that for one of our congregations which is a short term merge of two other congregations):

So what is Myriad like?
The basic structure is that of a computer […]

Jordon did a survey and listed some of his favorite blogs. I checked them out and one of them had a post that interested me. We often have questions at Northern on why Maundy Thursday is so named. Now I can answer with some authority and convinction

BBC online has a nice short explanation of […]

Hot on the heels of my recent post about the way that we argue about moral issues in society comes this article opposing gay marriage.
The author says:

However, the commonly accepted definition [of marriage] - union between a man and a woman - is under threat. If this definition is successfully challenged, the institution’s great value […]

Bushworld sure sounds scary!

This interesting question by a commenter at jordon’s site:

Here’s a starter - most liberal protestants and post-evangelicals think churches should remain silent when the state legalizes practices Christians have traditionally found morally suspect (e.g. abortion, same-sex marriage, lowered age of sex consent). On the other hand, when the state cuts funding to social assistance programs […]

At last we learn how to earn the man of steel’s admiration. Today, in response to a question about cricketer Stuart MacGill’s decision to boycott a proposed tour of Zimbabwe, the PM said:

I always admire somebody who in his own way, for his own reasons forms a conscientious objection on something, and I?m sure […]

Hamo asks:

If its not part of his life to sing ‘pre-faith’ should we expect him to do it ‘post-faith’. Is singing an essential biblical requirement for worship or is it a cultural expression that can be taken or left depending on context?…
There is a LOT of singing in the Bible - music has been called […]

This article by Bob Herbert sums it up pretty well.

This is the height of absurdity.
One of the things I remember from my time in the service many years ago was the ubiquitous presence of large posters with the phrase, in big block letters: Know Your Enemy.
This is a bit of military wisdom that seems to […]