Arthur Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
I’ve been enjoying the ABC’s blog covering the Global Atheist Convention (subscribe here). There is a good team of guest bloggers, including Christians I respect, Ben Myers and Chris Mulherin. So far, the blog has spent much of its time questioning whether the Convention will be reflective and constructive, or strident and […]
Mark Sayers has a real knack for diagnosing our Western bone cancers and provoking us to recover true life. If there’s a crisis in the Western church, he says, it’s not a crisis of church formatting but a crisis of discipleship. The basic Christian life, the very place where the […]
These two posts (here’s part 1) cover 10 factors behind the remarkable growth of the Christian church in its first 500 years and beyond. Each factor has important implications for how we think about mission and the church today. It’s part history and part sociology. The material comes from a […]
These two posts cover 10 factors behind the remarkable growth of the Christian church in its first 500 years and beyond. (Part 2 is here.) Each factor has important implications for how we think about mission and the church today. It’s part history and part sociology, and the material comes […]
I like to think of Mikey Lynch as the mini-tuna man of ministry blogging, serving up nutritious bite-sized chunks. He recently posted about the way Christians react to Avatar. I’ve had similar feelings.
Last night our much-loved Hungry Beast ran a story on ‘gay conversion’, along with a live forum. Gay conversion, also known as reorientation or ex-gay ministry, is the Christian idea that people with unwanted same-sex attraction can become ‘straight’. Here are a few thoughts from my Christian point of view.
It’s a modern Australian atrocity. These four men are the ones whose relentless bullying prompted the suicide of Brodie Pamlock. Melinda Tankard Reist has been covering it (here, here, here) and there’s also this Facebook group. Actually, when I look at these men, it’s like looking in a mirror. I […]
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