I have had dinner conversations like this

Everytime I tell Dan that I used to see Hobbits and Elves in our backyard of Ferntree Gully (where I grew up). I used to play with them among the gum trees.
Each time, I get mocked by Dan - but now …. refute this Dan

Congratulations to Nigel (a regular commenter on signposts) and to Sooz for the birth of their big big boy - Jude Aariel Mann.

Well, finally one of the good guys has won an election. Of course when there is no one running against you it is easier
nccc have voted to reappoint me for a further five years as their ministry team leader.

Had to laugh at this comment from dave paisley on one of Leighton’s posts about a Purpose Driven Life:

At least PDL isn’t the Prayer of Jabez.
Ye Gods, has there ever been a more materialistic mountain been made out of a spiritual molehill?
Well, maybe the Jim and Tammy Faye glory days of the 80s…
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With all our attention on forms of Church and theological debating - have we missed the point?
I think discussions on these two things are important and critical - yet I do wonder about our priorities sometimes.

There seems to be a myth around that although WMD have not been found in the US - it was the intelligence communities that were at fault and we cannot hold our politicians to what they said, as they were just reporting what they were told. Really? This article is revealing:
And a review of material […]

As many of you know the outcome of the Australian election hit me hard. I watched the election campaign with alarm as it was fought over issues of who could spend the most and attract the hip-pocket vote. With important issues of refugees, detaining innocent children behind barb wire, the lies and exaggeration about Iraq […]

The other day I received a copy of a talk where a minister here, who was extremely prominent in the church growth movement here congratulated our denominational body for adopting the sorts of things he has been talking about for years in the future directions process (see here, here and here). Made me giggle.
It […]

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, ‘Let justice roll down like mighty waters,’ and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure.
William Sloane Coffin