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TED and religion

NB: I’ve updated our link lists. Check out some of the people we know, stuff that interests us, or just fool around with cultural artefacts in the Pop! Culture Corner. WordPress.com today announced its new blog feature for embedding videos from TED.  If you haven’t heard of TED before, it’s […]

Liturgical painting: Spem in Alium

Today we did a performance for the Good Friday gathering at Christ Church Hawthorn.  Tamie read through Isaiah 53 while I pitched blood and filth at a great white throne flicked clots of red paint at a white-sheeted chair.  It was a straightforward but powerful symbol of Jesus’ suffering for […]

Book Review: Death By Love

I wonder if you, like me, have heard other Christians talk about how theology is ‘academic’. There’s an implication there that theology is not relevant to every day life. But reading Death By Love, a recent offering from Mark Driscoll along with Gerry Breshears, there can be no doubt that the […]

Man Up!

This post’s part of a discussion with all the brothers and sisters on Adelaide Christian Scene (Facebook).  Feel free to comment, whether or not that includes you!

Reading a MAP

The Ministry Training Strategy takes a number of different names around Australia. Whether you call it MAP (Adelaide), MTS (Sydney), a traineeship (Canberra) or Equip (Melbourne); whether it’s part-time or full-time; self-funded or not; straight out of uni or after some work experience, it’s ‘on the job’ training for ministry.

Confrontational Sensitivity

I’ve heard it said that Adelaide people are ‘polite’ before. But let me put it out there – Melbourne people are forthright. I could say ‘rude’, but that’s a little too strong. Of course it’s only a generalisation, a trend I’ve noticed since being in Melbourne (just as Adelaideans’ reputation […]