I have been called many things but kudos to Lance for one of the most original

Phil’s a tree-hugging gay-whale-watching poncho-wearing Don Scott-handbag-carrying liberal

More colorful names can be found in this thread

It had to happen - our good friends Laura and Scott have figured out the best way to make an announcement when they are currently living thousands of kilometres apart. When Laura is not in China doing research for her Masters, she is a member of our Tangent congregation at Northern. And she […]

Well, I have finally deleted trillian from my system. I really had no need for the multiple instant messenger mediums that it allowed and I was only using it because I wanted to be able to rename my msn messenger contacts.
I mean, even version 7 of msn doesn’t seem to be able to […]

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Picture two lovers side by side
who sleep and dream and wake to hold
the real and the imagined world
body by body, word by word
in the wild halo of their thoughts.

So, Gwen Harwood writes in the preface of Terry Veling book - Living in the Margins. Imagine if the two lovers were the established Church and the […]

Okay, I couldn’t resist this article about a poll of AFL followers. Among some of the more interesting results are those that compare particular team supporters with the results from all AFL supporters:

Crows supporters are 42% more likely to have eaten Hungry Jacks in the last four weeks and 30% more likely to have […]

I was cleaning up some old documents on my system today and came across a tutorial paper for one of my biblical studies tutorial papers which I did four or five years ago. I would junk the introduction and conclusion, but kind of enjoyed some of the key thoughts in the paper, as follows:
1. […]

In talking to someone today about the future of the Church, I recalled this powerful sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury - Rowan Williams
“Well, then, I suspect, it’s a lot more chaotic than we have usually assumed. We used to, in Wales, talk about the ‘mixed economy’ Church – that is, one which is learning […]

There was a time when a wedding anniversary would mean that we did something really special. Or maybe it is just our idea of special that has changed. But still, even if our celebration was simply the rare treat of delivered pizza and a glass of wine or two after I got home […]