At this rate, wouldn’t it be easier for Condolezza Rice to release a statement that reads “we deny everything”? Then she could just release it every news cycle when all those disgruntled employees, pro-terrorist like people publish their books. Of course, considering the record of the Bush Administration it might be handy to have a […]

Nigel wrote this in a previous comment about Easter. I thought it was worth elevating to here.

What God has achieved (is achieving) through Jesus is unique. Jesus was a singular person. There will never and could never be another as Christ-like as he. When the women and other disciples saw the risen Jesus for the […]

As I continue to read Walter Wink’s book on Engaging the powers, I did a search on the net for some other Wink articles. I came across this article which I thought sums up some of his thinking well.
At the moment pacifism is getting a bad name. Anything other than a war mongering violent approach […]

A friend of mine emailed these links today. Thanks Carl!
Of course my idea of sim church was way better
This BBC Article gives you a sense of the concept that they have for a church online. The Ship of fools web site is here

This post - It’s time for McEurope to act illustrates the trend in the western world is to demonise the terrorists so much so that they have ceased to be human but rather like orcs that need to be killed.
Why is it seen to be a defense of terrorists or unAustralian or whatever country you […]

Last night we had our easter tuesday service. For several years now, Northern has had at least one gen X ‘new model’ congregation which worships on Tuesday night, and we have therefore incorporated easter tuesday as one of our key easter worship events. In the past, we have often taken the opportunity to […]

Darren has a great post about the difficulties of blogging about a community of people. I agree entirely with what he has written.
I have often found that the most insightful lessons I have learnt in our journey I have not been able to post about for exactly the reasons Darren explores. Our congregations of […]

Calling all Seinfeld fans… this post from roadtosurfdom made me spill my coffee
Reporter: But the Presidential Daily Briefing was meant to alert you to take action. That’s why you have the Presidential Daily Briefing.
President: I know why we have Presidential Daily Briefings.
Reporter: I don’t think you do. You know how to ask for […]

This article in today’s age, titled ‘The rise of new Christianity’; is a good reminder to us, mainly western world dominated emerging Church bloggers.
The perception that religion in general and Christianity in particular is dead is a peculiarly Western-dominated line of thought. It not only ignores the major demographic trends in Africa and Latin America, […]

Ripples has a great post about the uniqueness of relationships formed through blogging. I must say that my own experience is summed up well by his post. I have formed some relationships in blogging that I value deeply MSN messaging and Skype have opened up these relationships even further than email and blogging. I don’t […]