One of the great things about doing a ministry traineeship for two years before coming to college as I did is that the ‘real’ experience of full-time ministry provides you with plenty of questions! One of my questions that I’ve raised before (here and here) is how to deal with […]
In this sermon I cover the whole of Jonah in a little over 20 minutes, from Christ Church Hawthorn, 26 October. I used some animations along with it, which you can find here.
Atheism is stridently anti-religious, but does it have anything more to offer?
It’s been all over the news. The Pope has a plan to welcome Anglicans who are looking for a more hardcore church to the the Roman Catholic Church. Last night, the 7pm Project reported on it – with surprising clarity. Of course, there was the normal laughing about the church […]
Someone I love and respect told me the other day how horrified she was by the claim she’d heard some other Christians make that those who did not believe in Jesus Christ were destined for Hell. To her, that was the essence of tearing relationship apart, to pass judgement on […]
The Boston Globe recently ran an interview with Rob Bell. Amongst other things, Bell says, I embrace the term evangelical, if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a […]
This is the final post in the ‘Take 2’ series, which are some thoughts for my Ministry Formation essay. Please critique these as I think out loud for the essay. Feel free to ignore the footnotes and the poor writing – this is just a first draft! But I’d love […]
Meet Jesus at uni 