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Post-election reflection
The Australian federal election is over once again. Christians have responded in very different ways. The mess with all the ‘Christian’ micro-parties (see the comments at the bottom of this post) kind of makes you wonder about our political engagement! I’m hoping something else is happening this year. There’s been […]
Is forgiveness the best story we have to tell?
He breaks the power of canceled sin, He sets the prisoner free; His blood can make the foulest clean, His blood availed for me! This classic hymn is all about the problem of sin, and its solution, the great Saviour Jesus. It’s a real celebration song, and when Charles Wesley […]
The King Jesus Gospel: a couple of reflections for Australia and Tanzania
Scot McKnight opens The King Jesus Gospel by relating several stories about the confusion of the word ‘gospel’. He reckons evangelicals by and large use the word to be ‘how you are saved’ and that this results in a culture where the key thing is to get people ‘over the line’. […]
Head shift (another one)
Our life in Dodoma has got a pretty good rhythm now. For the time being, I mostly know what to expect. We’re feeling pretty well together and not isolated. There’s tiredness, but no shell-shock. I’m always casting around for new experiences; it’s part of what drives me. I’m always animated […]
On the ‘new’ wave of complementarians
Last month, Wendy Alsup blogged about a new wave of complementarians and so ensued a great deal of discussion on the internet. (Catch up here.) People asked, who are the ‘old’ complementarians?; is it divisive to call this wave ‘new’, as if you’re setting yourself against others (maybe Mark Driscoll?); […]
Living ‘Below the Line’, Tanzania
It’s Live Below the Line time again, Oaktree foundation‘s fantastic initiative to help Aussies experience in a very small way what it’s like to live below the global poverty line: AUD2 a day. When I quoted the AUD2 per day stat at a church in Adelaide before our departure a […]
Meet Jesus at uni 