Well, I knew the intensive was going to be good, but this one was bloody brilliant. Speakers were great, conversation and sharing ideas, meeting new and wonderfully interesting people doing some great things in the name of the kingdom of heaven.  I took about 12 pages of notes, so rather than simply regurgitate those notes […]

Have just started reading The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet which is simply fabulous:
“What’s this you’re writing?” asked Pooh, climbing onto the writing table.
“The Tao of Pooh,” I replied.
“The how of Pooh?” asked Pooh, smudging one of the words I had just written.
“The Tao of Pooh,” I replied, poking his paw away with […]

Today at my kaleo group I was talking about the signposts commenters - were your ears burning?  We were discussing our progress with our spiritual discipline of “Entering the biblical story” and I observed that my day to day engaging with the scriptures often comes through the comments threads of signposts as people use their different […]

While some Contemporary Churches are ‘big’ on Luther this week, here is my contribution extracted from Luther’s 95 Theses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/95_thesis
 41.  Church tithing must be preached with caution, lest people erroneously think that they are preferable to other good works of love.
42.  Christians are to be taught that the Senior Pastor does not intend that the […]

Cheryl has posted a wonderful prayer as we prepare for Christmas: She writes:
“a prayer for those who, like me, are wondering where they’ll find the spark of inspiration in the preparation for christmas…
i do not have Mary’s faith
in the impossible
though i know i once did
i remember when the idea that the divine would be […]

Well it is state election day in sunny Victoria and I have just come back from exercising my citizenly duty.  In my latte-sipping eleftorate (see what I did there?) there were plenty of people clutching Greens how to vote cards in line for voting and I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a sizeable swing […]

I live less than 10km from the CBD.  This morning it took me almost two hours to travel that distance using public transport.  If you are voting in this Saturday’s state elections, take the time to check out the policies of the various parties on public transport - yet another indication that the ALP sucks […]

If you were feeling all pensive and excluded and stuff because you can’t make it to the Melbourne forge intensive this weekend, then never fear, because you can attend a forge intensive in NSW instead!!  Details in the extended entry.

So, when Phil and I were married, we had Nick Cave’s “Into My Arms” as the bridal “march”, ie it played as I was walking into the chapel.  It was only afterwards that Phil’s aunt pointed out to us that in a wedding full of almost exclusively church people, at least half of whom were members […]

This makes some sense in light of the recent criticism of Signposts, its hosts, and its ‘not nice’ commentators:
“I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. Such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their […]