We are off in NZ at the moment, so please excuse our infrequent visits to clean up spam. Hope you are all having a lovely time. At the moment we are driving around a little after spending some time working with Steve and Lynne at Opawa Baptist.
It is really exciting for us meeting […]

So Mark is gone - resigning as the federal opposition leader, resigning as a member of federal parliament. Taking his bat and ball and going home. With regards to Mark, I often disagreed with him politically but it was refreshing to have someone in the game who seemed like a real person rather […]

Australia decided not to help Mamdouh Habib while he was being held by the US. Why, asks Julian Burnside in the age.
Guantanamo is a bad advertisement for democracy and democratic values. It
reflects badly on any government that condones it. Great democratic principles, such as the rule of law and the right to due process, can […]

I am doing some work on statistics for our annual report. It is a year that particularly interests me as it is now five years since we begun our journey in merging four churches in the northern suburbs of Melbourne in an attempt to respond to the new missional context the churches found themselves in. […]

The ooze tackles homosexuality. May the force be with them

Everyone is to blame for torture except people who said “I don’t like torture” and then went out and voted for the torturers.
Now that is a quote designed to get a discussion going. Thanks to roadtosurfdom for the link.

There are some days when I know why I read emerging church blogs regularly. It if for posts like this from hamo and this from Mike.

CNN is now offering rss feeds - thanks to jkontherun for the heads up
Now, if we could just get CNNN to offer rss as well

OK, so the title was just to stir Dan.
Later this week Dan and I head over to the south island of New Zealand to spend some time with Steve and Lynne Taylor at Opawa Baptist Church.
We will be running a seminar called liquid thinking - many congregations, one church. In this seminar we will be […]

We have had to cancel the liquid conference due to lack of numbers. A great pity.
However, on February 9, 2005 at nccc from 2pm we will host a gathering for people who like to engage in some story telling, alt worship and other activities.
I will post up more details when available. But, even if […]