I am wondering if you are in a Church that you would consider to be multi-congregational? Or maybe you know a Church that is multi-congregational? I want to compile a list of Churches who are attempting to have more than one congregation. In particular, I am keen to find out Churches who are operating emerging […]

Today, I had an interesting chat with someone who I hadn’t seen for a long time. He is involved as a leader in a established Church in the eastern suburbs of melbourne. A Church that is fairly small and is situated among a number of large bible belt churches.
As he talked about his Church, a […]

Luke, a regular commenter on signposts, provided this link saying that he found the article from Christianity today to be interesting.
I am interested particularly in people’s reaction to this bit:
To all conservative Christians, liberals, however well meaning, appear as parasitic cosmeticians; cosmeticians, because they constantly aim to remove from Christianity that which outsiders, like some […]

At Tangent tonight we invited Stephen Said to share his story. I really appreciate Stephen’s gifts having got to know Stephen quite well over the last year or so. The thing that I really admire is his networking ability - he is at heart a “recruiter”. He makes you enthusiastic for his cause - whether […]

One of my favorite Australian political blogs is roadtosurfdom. Today he tackles the issue of homosexuality and in particular the condemnation of the Church towards homosexuals and other related issues such as gay marriage. Go and check the whole post out.
Tim Dunlop quotes Senator Andrew Bartlett:
As a politician, I expect people to sometimes strongly disagree […]

Chris Erdman writes:
But mostly in the American Evangelical church, we are asking different questions. Generally they fall in among one of three major varieties:
1.Questions of the refrigerator variety: is there something here that I can consume and feel satisfied?
2.Questions of the pharmacy variety: is there something here I can take that will make […]

In a comment on the thread “Unity Expressed How?”, Dean writes the following in a response to a proposition from George that dying Churches are liberal Churches. I think it is worthy of repeating here.
The dying church mate is the one who does not breathe the Spirit. The dying church is the one who doesn’t […]

A couple of weeks ago I had a university day - one of those moments when I dip into my other life as a student and do some seminars or research towards my doctorate. One of the seminars I had to attend included a discussion of just what the purpose of a thesis was. […]

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Tonight I watched the movie version of Margaret Craven’s “I heard the owl call my name”. I love the book. I own about three copies of it because I keep buying them whenever I see them in second hand bookstores etc just so that I can give them away to people.
Our friends Rohan […]