I am wondering whether the Coalition is beginning to regret jumping into bed with the Family First party. Much of the comment before the election seemed to assume that conservative evangelical christianity would promote essentially the same political agenda as the coalition. This has never been a reasonable expectation, as the policies published […]

Loved this section of the christmas message from Rowan Williams:
He does what we do; he is born, he grows up, he lives for many years a life that is ordinary and prosaic like ours - he works, he eats, he sleeps. Here is ultimate love, complete holiness, made real in a back street in a […]

Richard has written a very clear and succinct post on the penal substitionary theology of the cross, including some solid thinking about the different models of understanding the death of Jesus:
We should approach this as the writers of the New Testament did. They did not begin with a theory of human sin and the way […]

The latest Alban Institute newsletter contains this helpful exercise:
Reflecting with God
1. Naming the Experience: Choosing an event on which to reflect
Choose an event, a moment, a conversation, or a situation. As you recall the event, ask yourself:
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Today, our ministry and kaleo team met to do our fortnightly lectio divina biblical reflection. It was the first time in about four months that our ministry team have all been together - as each one of us has progressively had some well earned holidays.
Our biblical passage that we reflected on was the reading from […]

Signposts has now switched to be powered by wordpress. We have not ironed out all the template and permalinks issues yet. But, we thought we would make the switch nevertheless now, due to all the problems we were having with our old configuration.
If you find an issue please email us at phil [at] signposts.org.au or […]

According to this report, the Family First party is open and honest about its christian foundation:
The party founders and leadership are Christian and proud of it. Most of all, most of, if not all, the party’s candidates in the Federal campaign were actually Christian people. Why? Because that is the network base that we have […]

I have been enjoying reading this blog by Chris Erdman and Alan Roxburgh. As you know our denomination is utilizing Alan Roxburgh future directions process - his and Chris (who I don’t know) sure write quality stuff.

Reverend Mike got a request to remove a Far Side cartoon from his site - such a nice and reasonable cease and desist letter which reflects very well on Gary Larson and the methods he uses to try and prevent unauthorised use of his cartoons.

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