Mark Sayers
Leslie Newbeggin - “Religion is not what you say but what you believe and do” (I might have got the quote wrong - but the essence is right - anyone know the quote?”)
The whole of life as a shopping experience - a shopping mindset has grabbed us. It will fix everything. Relationships are increasingly […]

Mark Sayers
What does the average aussie think about? What is morality? What do they think about life and death?
This point of history is at a point where is more common thinking in the world.
People have become cynical about politics. Our instiutions and structures have or are collapsing.
This century doesn’t look like what people would have […]

Is the purpose of the Church to return to the New Testament Church experience – no money, no buildings, under the radar, and with no influence
or….
Is it to be the people of God in the context and environment we have, with the resources that we have?

Deb Hirsch - the three B’s
Deb Hirsch is talking about the “three b’s”. She is talking about Belonging, Belief and Behavior. Her central thesis is that our Churches primarily focuses on the last two - belief and behavior.
I can understand her point - yet, I can’t help but believe that our critique of Church’s focus […]

The value of proximity - Michael Frost.
We need to be near, close and in relationship with our community and our culture. It is not just geographical - just putting up a building will not be enough. It is relational!
Real incarnational ministry means that we leave the spaces we feel comfortable and enter the spaces that […]

Or not.
It appears we have totally neglected to mention the fact that this blog turned 2 earlier this month. So to mark the occasion (belatedly) some highlights from the last two years.
I checked out our archives to see exactly when we started our blog and came across this post on our very first day, […]

The Age
February 17, 2005
Greg Egan tells the story of his friend Peter Qasim, who has languished in
immigration detention for more than six years.
In May 2002, I received my first reply from a new penfriend named Peter
Qasim. He thanked me for my letter, told me he’d been born in Indian
Kashmir, and asked me about my hobbies […]

Ken is soliciting nominations for your ten best pop/rock songs of the last 20 years, that is 1985 or later. He is trying to put together a top 20 but struggling because of the diversity of the nominations. So he needs lots of nominations. Plus it is really cool fun choosing your […]

I have enjoyed reading some of the reflections on liquid on some of the blogs around the place (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here (see follow up as well)).
One of the comments I particularly enjoyed was this post from Travbox:
ART!: Now i’m not against the concept of Art, it […]

Today I received in my inbox a petition to the Victorian parliament to remove the references to religious vilification in the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001 (discussed previously here and here. The petition has been circulated by Salt Shakers which is fine and not really anything to comment on. Which is a […]