I read this today, and I thought that it had a couple of really good challenges for us church people:

This ‘freeing’ of an obligation to believe in God came along with a doubt in my mind about my own motivations. I wondered whether I’d been good and moral because I was scared of God, or […]

Ok, I have been away for the weekend, so haven’t commented on the whole Big Brother controversy where Merlin refused to speak when he got booted from the house.
I caught the end of the show because it was on at the time my regular scheduled sunday night programming should have been on. […]

I really liked this idea of cosmic jeopardy from Lingering Lemon of Death, so I am posting it here so that I can remember to steal it later sometime:

all around the room, giant pieces of white paper were stuck to the walls. everybody had pens. the rules: write the answer to the question on the […]

I have been working on a new project. With the advent of our new facilites a number of new possibilities are opening for us as a Church. One of these is being a provider for work for the dole placements. Today, Roger and I interviewed a canditate who will start next week on a two […]

A good article in this morning’s paper:

Last year, Peter Costello gave a lecture in which he said, in contrast to totalitarian regimes such as Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, which punish dissent, he upheld the value of a tolerant country that allows dissenting views to flourish.
He bemoaned the disengagement of people from their communities and praised […]

I have been reading this great book that was lent to me by a friend: The search to belong - rethinking intimacy, community and small groups by Joseph Myers. I loved the powerful section on whose role it is to decide who is in and who is out of the kingdom. Joesph Myers argues that […]

Turn it off. Read the paper. Find another news outlet. Just stop watching Fox News. That is my advice to the anonmyous commenter on one of my past blog entries who wrote:
are you kidding me. how can you total fools say that jesus or anyone else can be against this war.we were directly attacked on […]

Finally, the settlement of the purchase of our new house is taking place in about three and a half hours from now.
It is kind of nice to enjoy this moment - when the idea of owning a home is all new and exciting - when the idea of even going and cleaning it all before […]

I am preaching on our spirituality discipline of ’sharing our hospitality’ this week. I was reminded once again about my favorite powerful story that inspires me in hospitality. Hospitality to be a spiritual discipline should not just be about inviting people who are like us, or who are our friends. It can be that but […]

In our ongoing discussion on gay marriage, Nigel posed this question.
When our Australian Prime Minsiter was talking about this issue the other day on the ABC radio he used the word “status”. He was saying a married hetrosexual couple have a status that an unmarried homosexual couple do not have and should not be allowed […]