At St Andrew’s Hall, the learning centre for CMS Australia, our friends have just launched a six-part video course called Mission Mindset. The course outline begins, Rather than seeing ‘mission’ as something ‘special’ Christians do, the church is increasingly communicating that Jesus sends us out to continue his work and […]
Merry Christmas! ‘The Nativity’ by Gari Melchers came up in my Facebook feed a few weeks ago and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. It’s from 1891. The painting isn’t set in the traditional stable, and there are no shepherds or wise men or angels. […]
Today, some suggestions for how to ask us questions. At one level we don’t really care – any question shows you’re interested and want to be involved! However, these tips might help you to get some better answers out of us. 1. Don’t be embarrassed to ask something you think you should […]
With Arthur’s arrival in Australia, our home assignment has officially started! Over the next few Mondays I’ll post some tips about how you can be helpful to us during this time of visiting partner churches, organisations and people. Today, I’m starting with one tip which I hope will save us […]
Advent starts today. It’s a time of waiting and mystery, but we know what it is we’re anticipating: the coming of Christ. Christ has come. We know who he is, and what he did. The mystery is not around his identity or his work. The mystery lies in the why […]
As the credits roll on the animated film WALL-E, Peter Gabriel sings, We’re coming down to the ground! There’s no better place to go! The song caps off the story about humanity returning to planet Earth generations after wrecking it — although WALL-E, EVE and friends are needed to wake […]
Engaging the university (see all posts) refers to moving campus ministries beyond the pietistic, evangelistic, and apologetic realms into new territory: participation and dialogue. I have not yet asked in detail why we might want more of this, or what motivations we might have for trying to move in that […]
Meet Jesus at uni 