Duncan Macleod is involved in a church plant on the gold coast in sunny QLD. Gee for some, the location of their church must be a hardship As well as Church planting, Duncan is writing an amazing amount of blogs which are all linked from his main blog (one blog to rule them […]

Still up for debate/discussion and the many arguments that surround the missing wmd’s in Iraq? Then head over to roadtosurfdom as Tim links up a great resource from Dr Glen Rangwala, who is an independent analyst at the University of Cambridge, UK. Dr Rangwala has attempted to match up the pre-war utterings of the key […]

Stephen over at neurotribe has been doing a series of posts on the issues that he (and others who have commented) believe are the pressing ones for the emerging church. I must admit to not having engaged in the discussion due to lack of concentration caused by holiday downtime but a skim shows some good […]

LT has announced his engagement on the web. We wish all the best to Carol and Leighton.
Head on over and encourage LT to spend his honeymoon in Melbourne Australia. He really wants to, but is resisting. The happy couple could even take in a romantic AFL game at that time of the year.

Alan Roxburgh, ( in his consultation to churches of christ in victoria) illustrates with this table the shifts required from pastoral leadership to a missional leadership footing. Recently at nccc I have been regularly meeting with three retired ministers who are members at nccc. In order to open discussion around how my role is different […]

On Wednesday 11th May at 7.30pm, Northern Community Church of Christ and Forge are launching Steve Taylor’s book - Out of Bounds Church. This is an event not to be missed if you are in the vicinity of Melbourne. Steve will also be giving some input at the unfreeze conference on 12th-14th May which has […]

And so we gather at the Mccrae beachhouse.
For a birthday bash extravaganze - Sushi, rice paper rolls, hot pot with all sorts of meats and vegies.
Happy Birthday Dan - the big 30..

In the interests of being parachoial about Churches of Christ in Australia, let me link up another Church of Christ blogger from our national capital. Ronaldo is the team leader at the Church of Christ in Belconnen, Canberra which is known as Nationsheart.
Ronaldo is interested in the emerging Church so go over and welcome him […]

“In the struggle for peace against nuclear armaments, and in the struggle for justice against the dictatorships of violence and apartheid, many people have been able to say: we do what we have to do whether we succeed or not. We are acting in accordance with God’s future, the future we hope for, even if […]

One of the driving forces behind the emerging church is mission. For the record I even prefer the term the ‘missional church’. Yet, despite this being one of the driving forces and despite it being the articulated (and much discussed) purpose, I wonder if we are achieving what we set out to do.
As I look […]