Okay, so I have been meaning to call your attention to Mike Todd’s campain over at Waving or Drowing (which I, like, helped name, dudes).  Go read the whole spiel over there, but here’s the short version.  Donate $10 Canadian for AIDS/HIV relief in Africa.  They are aiming for 1000 donations and still have a long way […]

On one of our threads, we came to be discussing “internal” theological training - that is training that is conducted by a church for the benefit of its members.  As one who has undergone some theological training for my own development, I don’t profess a lot of direct knowledge of the inner workings of “internal” […]

Though there has been a little commentary in some of our threads here, I have not made any mention of the whole “uncovered meat” statements by Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali, the Grand Mufti of Australia (as an aside, how cool is that title?  ‘Mufti’ just has a great ring to it.).  And then today, we have […]

Haydn Nelson, at Phil.Baker.net, points to some interesting articles regarding the Ted Haggard saga.
This from Christianity Today:
“Perhaps inability to tell the full truth is a sign that one is actually lying to himself and cannot face the full truth of the behavior in his own soul.
But then all sin begins with lies told to […]

“Australian citizen David Hicks has been detained in Guantánamo Bay for nearly five years. The Australian Government must act to bring David Hicks home to face a fair trial or be released.”
I encourage you to write this email to the Prime Minister.
An article in today’s paper regarding Hicks is here for some more information

Invitation from Kim Hammond:
Dear Friends,
I would like to invite you to come to our November intensive (24th-26th) on Pioneering Leadership.
It will be an inspiring time around real stories of innovation, empowering leadership, organic paradigms and looking at Jesus as a model of leadership.
The world is changing at an incredible rate. The challenge of effective mission […]

David Finch reflects on his experiences of planting a church and lists ten or eleven things: (thanks to hamo for the heaps up). David’s list rings true with our experience at Northern.
TEN THINGS ANYONE WHO JOINS IN A TWENTY FIRST CENTRUY MISSIONAL CHURCH PLANT SHOULD NOT EXPECT
1.) Should not expect to regularly come to church […]

Seems like I spend all my time pointing out some friend’s new blog. Well this friend Nahum has been blogging for a while and it has been remiss of us not to send a heads up his way.
Nahum has an interesting reflection on a recent experience with our public transport system in Australia:
“Yesterday I was […]

Alan Hirsch author of shaping of things to come and the soon to be released forgotten ways has started blogging…
“Just a note to let you know that after many years of deliberating, I have decided to start blogging. My tardiness is due mainly to laziness rather than the belief that blogging is not a […]

So if you missed it, a prominent conservative evangelical preacher from Colorado, Ted Haggard was forced to resign from his church and confess to at least some of a homosexual escort’s allegations that he was paying for meth-fuelled gay sex while campaigning against same sex marriage. I don’t really want to add to the […]