Darren has a request. He might just regret it, but I would encourage anyone who is bored to go and be controversial in his comments threads.

I came across a new blog today courtesy of Leighton. And I was struck by the eloquence of this post. It was hard to select a part of it to quote as it is all well worth reading and commenting on, in the interests of engendering a positive discussion of the differences […]

A couple of months ago, whilst travelling in New Zealand after visiting Lynne & Steve, I picked up a copy of Watership Down and proceeded to torment Phil with its lessions for the church as I read it over the following days.
I came home to search for the unread copy of Shardik by the same […]

With the site down over Easter, we have missed a lot of things to comment on, but I wanted to highlight this article from Hugh Mackay:

Sell your possessions and give money to the poor? Treat the homeless, the starving, the dispossessed as if they were the embodiment of God in your midst? That’s the sort […]

Our site now seems to have returned from the wilderness. We weren’t being censored or punished. Our hosting company had some difficulties when a scheduled outage become extended in an unscheduled manner. Thanks to the hard work of Carl (have a coffee and lie down, dear) we are now back on line […]

Lately I have been trying to work on one of our spiritual disciplines, that of engaging with the spirit. I often find this really difficult, as any reflection seems to find my mind wandering onto other things. After our Tangent Easter service on Tuesday, I wanted to intentionally set aside time this week […]

Waitress and chef overheard at the cafe that I had my morning coffee.
Waitress - “Why are is there a cross on the hot cross buns”
Chef - “Jesus”
Waitress - “huh”
Chef - “You know Jesus on the cross”
Waitress “Oh ok” (with some uncertainity)
Chef - “You know the easter eggs are for new life?”
Waitress - “I like […]

Anthony writes this in a thread - I thought it was worth reposting for those not following the “hyper” active threads on signposts.

“I do not believe the church is dead, or even asleep. Maybe apathetic, lazy, frightened, unsure, insecure, indignant, prideful, smarmy, prosperous, arrogant, ignorant and smug, but no, not dead or asleep.
One of […]

I received some really sad news this week. In 2000, we started our first new congregation of nccc in the home of Joel and Peta Roberts. This week, Peta died of pneumonia after her immune system, which was weakened from her ongoing battle with Hodgkinson disease, couldn’t cope.
I spoke to Joel on the phone. What […]

I was commenting the other day that I hadn’t really seen a great deal of commentary or publicity about the Franklin Graham crusade (festival victoria) except through the church network. I will be interested to see who actually turns up to the rallies. I know a bunch of christian people that are going, […]