Thanks to Lance for alerting us to this article by Roger Olsen. Straight to the pool room for this one!

“Other Christian movements have suffered similar scandals, but Pentecostalism seems particularly rife with them. Insiders know some of the reasons. Deeply embedded within the Pentecostal movement’s ethos is a cult of personality; charismatic leaders are […]

Tim (team member at Northern Community) has a great summary post on a number of significant and important posts about the Church that have been buzzing around the blogsphere for a while - well, worth a read!
Part 1. The People formerly knows as The Congregation - Bill Kinnon

We grew weary from your Edifice Complex pathologies […]

Trevor Glass has released his long-awaited DVD in which (I believe) ‘Signposts’ own ‘Absolute Truth’ may appear in the final edit.

“Suffer the Children” takes a look into the lives and lifestyles of some of the biggest names in tele-evangelism today. It explores the origins of the Word of Faith movement, also known […]

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was recently faced with a unique problem.A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving […]

Lance linked this up in another thread but I thought it worthy of its own discussion place. Thank Lance for the heads up!
“The People Formerly Known As The Pastor discovered somewhere in “doing church” that they were being paid as surrogates for the congregation’s spirituality.”
“The People Formerly Known As The Pastor wrestled with conflicting ego […]

prodigal Kiwi points out the following statistics on pastors of local churches:
· 80% of pastors say they have insufficient time with spouse and that ministry has a negative effect on their family.
· 40% report a […]

An interesting article in the age today with some familiar names quoted and mentioned: Credo Cafe, Cheryl Lawrie, Mark Sayers, Ruth Powell, Alan Hirsch, Don Carson and others.
Looking for Jesus: Refuges in Faith

OK. This is a little strange!
“The emerging church is about to gain mass media coverage. After years of being an interesting but ultimately niche spiritual-cultural experiment, TV broadcasters in the UK and Australia are joining forces to feature emerging church in a ‘big brother’ style virtual reality show.
‘The Generation X Game’ will focus on 12 […]

Wayne poses an interesting question in one of the threads and I thought it worthy of its own thread:
“I guess the question I’m really asking is about the whole push for mission at all. Whenever I hear people talking about mission, changing the world, that it’s all about “them”, being missional, I get an uneasiness […]

In an episode which is bound to be a lot of fun for the wives and husbands among us, we have 1 Peter 3.
Wives and Husbands
1Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words […]