I don’t know how I missed this powerful and challenging article in my daily newspaper. But, reading the blogs has Digger point it out for me - thanks!
Here are some powerful paragraphs:
“The church as I know it is a living, flawed entity full of varied, ordinary people who want nothing but good for others as […]

I have just spent a weekend at the Urban Neighbours Of Hope discipleship camp. And I was surprised by what was the highlight for me.
UNOH is an order within the Churches of Christ, serving Christ by living with the urban poor and the speakers at the weekend where the founder of the order Ash “Better […]

An interesting article in the age today:
“The findings of a controversial documentary claiming that a cave found 26 years ago in Jerusalem held the remains of Jesus Christ have been unveiled in New York.
The documentary, titled The Burial Cave of Jesus, follows years of research by world-renowned archaeologists and experts in ancient scripts, according to […]

An interesting article this morning, if only because it shares some of my own feelings. Catherine Deveny says:
I don’t believe in God any more. I’m a cultural Catholic. I couldn’t swear on the Bible, I’d have to take an oath on New Scientist.
You may laugh, and I wouldn’t blame you, but my faith was […]

The greenman posted a while ago on some interesting church stats:
“At 89% attendance the Nigerians truely are a church going nation, they have a church attendance more than double that of the USA (you heathen lot). As for Australia we only made it to 16%, which from The Green Mans anecdotal experience is fairly generous. […]

Reader ADHD Librarian gave me a heads-up to this article about the campaign by some US Baptists to distance themselves from the more conservative image of the Southern Baptist Convention.  Backed by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, the group aims to hold a convention next January:
Nashville-based Baptist Center for Ethics executive director Robert Parham, an […]

What do you reckon?
Shall we sign the letter and put our name to the Clergy Letter Project? Do you think that signposts reputation might be affected?

Scott over at Ranges Community gives me the heads up on U2charists:
“The Melbourne Anglicans are reporting that they are bringing the U2charist to Australia. Well, this might be enough for me to go back to Anglicanism!”
What a great idea! I mean we could do that at Northern and that would really get Dan believing that […]

I don’t know whether this is irony or what.  A church puts a sign in front of its building saying “Jesus loves Osama”, and prompts pretty universal condemnation.  The PM says that people will think that the priorities of the church in question should be elsewhere.  Philip Jensen suggests that the sentiment, posted along with […]

Have just completed a long overdue update to the blogroll, removing dead links etc.  If you link to us and you aren’t on our blogroll, please let me know in the comments to this post.