Will Mackerras is a storyteller and poet — the Ridley poet-in-residence, really! In 2010, his love of Australian bush poetry led him to recast a series of Bible stories in a traditional Aussie form. The results are brilliant. Some pieces are thoroughly chuckle-inducing, like The Man From Ironbark, while the sustained […]
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These are my notes from the talks at Summer Encounter, the annual conference of CMS in South Australia. Steve Maina is the national director of New Zealand CMS. I was excited to see him popularising some of the new thinking about mission that we’ve been getting at college. We were […]
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Two exciting new blogs from friends: Sam Cohen, now in England, is writing beer reviews at Sam’s Brews. Pete Greenwood, ninja, is writing about ministry and theology at Ministry Ninja. (If you can’t find his RSS, it’s this.)
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These are my notes from the talks at Summer Encounter, the annual conference of CMS in South Australia. Dr David Williams is the head of development and training in CMS. His talks covered the three parables in Luke 18:1-30.
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These are my notes from the talks at Summer Encounter, the annual conference of CMS in South Australia. Dr David Williams is the head of development and training in CMS. His talks covered the three parables in Luke 18:1-30.
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These are my notes from the talks at Summer Encounter, the annual conference of CMS in South Australia. Dr David Williams is the head of development and training in CMS. His talks covered the three parables in Luke 18:1-30.
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Sudan is Africa’s largest nation. As I write this, it is about to split in two. This time it will be official. The South is currently holding a referendum that will almost certainly result in a call for its independence. I have friends among the Melbourne voters for whom this is […]
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