Lionfish sent me a link to this article which talks about a new US reality TV show, documenting the four week period before a number of wannabe priests take their vows.

God or the Girl pits four aspiring young Catholic priests against their libidos during the final four weeks before their decisions to take the church’s […]

A while ago we gave a heads up to an article about Geoff Bullock which was due to be published in the Australian back in October. They apparently changed their minds for a while (because he was uninteresting or something) but Geoff mentions that it is now due to be published in the Weekend […]

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The evangelical alliance has an interesting article (pdf) by Frank Rees on Enabling congregations to become theological communities.
Should every congregation be a mini-theological college? Frank Rees (Professor of Systematic Theology at Whitley College, Melbourne) thinks so and shows how biblical and theological thinking can permeate the life of the church.
It seems the full paper is […]

One of the advantages of having a severe asthma attack, is that you get to use a ventolin nebuliser pump which has the effect of ensuring you don’t sleep - apparantly it makes you breathe too which is always handy.
Yesterday a book that I have waited for a while arrived, and so I atleast had […]

“The covenant community is made up of kingdom people who together form the church that Jesus is building. We need to recapture the fundamental understanding that Christian do not “go to church”, they are the church. The simple but profound principles Jesus taught provide both basic discipleship and leadership development. They can be used to […]

We are continuing our look at the book by Bill Easum - Unfreezing Moves - Following Jesus into the mission field The other posts in the series can be found here
Unfreezing Move #9 - Radical Generosity
The final unfreezing move is said by Easum to be the last because money “seldom plays a large part […]

Last night at Tangent a conversation about spiritual disciplines and complaints about business cards rapidly deteriorated into a discussion of all kinds of different things including the Gospel of Judas, the Da Vinci Code, a missional order, the Fundamentals and theology of the cross.
Our denomination (and thus my personal theological tradition) has a belief “in […]

Gordon Moyes’ assistant has emailed signposts asking for a reciporcal link to Gordon Moyes web site.
As a former Church of Christ minister how could we refuse!

We are continuing our look at the book by Bill Easum - Unfreezing Moves - Following Jesus into the mission field The other posts in the series can be found here
Unfreezing move #8 - Space and Place as a metaphor
Easum starts this chapter with a story that highlights the contrast between the way businesses […]