The school next to our church has been involved in a Melbourne-wide controversy about Christian religious education in Victoria. Facebook has been flooded with calls for Christians to write letters, sign petitions and get informed about CRE. The dispute was resolved just this week. Coming from SA, which doesn’t have […]
This weekend, The Australian Magazine ran a piece called JC and the Cool Gang. It’s about how Christianity, especially of the Pentecostal variety, might not be that daggy after all. The story features Erica and Jim Bartle: The almost impossibly beautiful 20-something couple live in Queensland’s Mt Tamborine, in the […]
After my meta angle, let me change gears and start thinking about Love Wins from a more doctrinal point of view. (And no, the book still won’t be released for a month!)
Rob Bell is releasing a new book, Love Wins, raising the question of universalism. He’s been censured with astonishing speed by a string of American evangelicals, like these two at the Gospel Coalition. One guy has even written an embarrassing point-by-point refutation of — guess what — the book’s promotional video. How […]
It’s a dangerous thing for a married person to review Singled Out: Why Celibacy Must Be Reinvented in Today’s Church. After all, singleness is not ‘my’ issue and many singles would say that someone who got married at 23 couldn’t possibly understand the struggle. But I’m actually passionate about this […]
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of The Biggest Loser. Last year I even went in the middle of the Hebrew intensive to see Shannan and Michelle at a local shopping centre! I’m excited that it’s back on and loving the early days of this ‘Families’ season.
This week, all over the world, WordPress bloggers are posting the same automated post, “2010 in review“. It’s WordPress’s summary of each blog’s hit counts, and comes with a health assessment based on these stats. The pretty obvious message: the more hits, the better. Traffic equals success. Over at Domesticated […]
Meet Jesus at uni 