Had a good time at Tangent on Tuesday night. Tangent is a congregation of Northern Community of largely young adults that meets 7.30m on Tuesday nights.

For some time we have become increasingly uncomfortable about our location in the pub. There was something about a private room - behind a closed door that didn’t sit well […]

Jon Owen asks some powerful if not disturbing questions about the Aboriginal sexual abuse issue and John Howard’s new found interest in the issue.

“1) Why doesn’t Mr Howard work with the local Aboriginal leadership and get them involved in the planning of strategies to fight the problem? Why doesn’t he consult the Aboriginal elders and […]

As part of my role with Forge, I get to sit with Church leaders wrestling with how to orient their Church around mission. I find it stimulating, challenging and exciting.
This year I have been spending time with the leadership team at Central Church in Wollongong. The transition stream of Forge has had the unexpected progression […]

Dear Ms Cornwell Patricia Pat Author,
I am certainly not your earliest reader, but I was there from the start. I read Postmortem in the first year it was published and from then you were firmly on my list of authors for crime fiction, essential for inserting between more involved reading on my daily public […]

I was just reading the attached article entitled “Biblical battle of creation groups” in the Australian as submitted in a link by Alan as found here:
Whilst the article focuses on the accusations of financial impropriety and power broking within the Creation Ministry, I found this accusation fascinating:
“According to Mr Briese’s report, the campaign last […]

From an article in the Age this morning:
CHRISTIANS have lost sight of the spiritual dangers of wealth, making it their greatest moral blindness, according to Melbourne Anglican Archbishop Philip Freier.
He says Christians have allowed consumerism to make them self-centred and too concerned with their own comfort and economic security.
Dr Freier calls Melbourne Anglicans to a […]

Over at Ranges Community blog - Scott and Christina have highlighted a recent quote from Brian McLaren about the religious right in the US.
‘My sense is that the religious right has hit its high tide. I think on
a whole lot of levels it has been somewhat discredited. But I think the
true believers in the religious […]

The rev over on his blog has an important announcement about an up and coming event, that he wanted to highlight for signposters.
“Wed June 13th 7pm at:
the Den116 Little Burke St.Chinatown Melbourne
Jarrod McKenna is a member ofPeace Tree Community he is an awardwinning activist and non violencetrainer, and picks his nose when no one is […]

In honor of the Apple developer’s conference next week, you should watch this presentation of their new product - the iRack
(note: those who don’t like geeky stuff should also watch!)

Dr Stephen Curkpatrick from CCTC, regularly sends around little thought provoking posts to people in our movement of Churches of Christ. The recent one I thought would be of interest to signposters who often discuss the use and place of scripture.
“In Churches of Christ identity and witness, Scripture is regarded as the primary reference point […]