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We try to keep God in church on Sunday morning…
Maybe, Sunday night…
And, the unlikely event of a midweek service.
We do like to have Him around during sickness…
And, of course, at funerals.
However, we don’t have time, or room, for Him during work or play…
Because.. That’s the part of our lives we think… We can, […]

I have created a new category on signposts for glurges. The Urban Legends Reference Page defines glurges as:
Think of it as chicken soup with several cups of sugar mixed in: It’s supposed to be a method of delivering a remedy for what ails you by adding sweetening to make the cure more appealing, but […]

Ian Harper is the head of the new fair pay commission (which is amazing seeing as we don’t even have legislation on this yet). Anyway, he apparently is guided by God as to how this will work:
“I’ll be praying for wisdom … praying for courage and praying above all that God’s will is being […]

Got an email from a freelance writer who is doing a piece for GQ on Hillsong. Noting that we have a “Hillsong website”, he asked us to invite any ex-Hillsongers who are willing to share their stories (and I would imagine that it could be anonymous if you like) to contact him. Now […]

The Federal Government has announced that it intends to introduce legislation concerning new “anti-terror” laws on Cup Day and force an immediate debate, with the result that the parliament will have 10 minutes to review the final form of the legislation rather than the customary two weeks.
Of course what it also does is prevents the […]

Another swipe at the church from a right wing commentator buried in this Paul Kelly article about why the minimum wage must be abolished reformed:
(The intellectual failure of the churches to accept the moral foundations of a market economy and market-based mechanisms to deliver equity dooms them to a historic marginalisation. When on earth will […]

Interesting article from the Australian discussing the recent rush by the press for quotes from religious leaders on topics such as the changes to the industrial relations regime and the debate over the mining of uranium. Morrow concludes:
That churches have started to weigh in on various political controversies is not surprising, but it is […]

Geoff has emailed to give us the heads up that he will be featured in a feature article in the Australian.
He has offered to engage with us at signposts in the comments section when the article is published. Which we have gratefully accepted!
Stay tuned!

Andrew Dowsett, who has recently arrived in Perth, has drawn some church planting lessons from one of my favorite TV shows.

“What Dr House taught me about church-planting…

sometimes received procedure fails to address the - critical - issue;

an intuitive approach ultimately might be more effective…

don’t worry overly about “getting it wrong” (the church might […]

Ed Husic was the Labor party candidate for the federal seat of Greenway in the last election and in this article describes how the fact that he was a muslim featured prominantly in the campaign against him:
Another thing I noticed was interest shown in my name by sections of the Liberal Party. Labor campaign workers […]