My college mates and I spend plenty of time wondering about church identity (eg, see the list of posts here). There’s just been an interesting discussion on the blog of Australian theologian Michael Jensen. Having observed a lack of Anglican identity amongst ministers and students at his own evangelical Anglican […]
(This post follows on from Depicting Jesus.) The new Jesus: All About Life campaign has just kicked off in NSW. The prime time media begins next week. The campaign has already been through a few Australian cities; the pilot run was in Adelaide a few years ago. This time, there have […]
Denise George‘s ‘What Women Wish Pastors Knew‘ is a collection of responses to a survey sent to women in the US about how they feel about church. While books like ‘Why Men Hate Going to Church‘ have picked up on why there’s been a decrease in male attendance at church, […]
The first topic of the blog convo is ‘the non-negotiables of church’. At this point I just want to make a kind of pre-contribution, which I’ll return to later. Soma Church is a new church startup in Sydney and they’ve blogged some useful ideas. Writing here and here, they sketch out […]
I’m starting a blog conversation with Andrew, a fellow Adelaidean. We’ve each got some similar things on our radars. I’m preparing for parachurch ministry, so I need to figure out what ‘church’ is in order to ‘para’ it. Meanwhile, Andrew runs a house church called Serpents and Doves. We’ll pick […]
Today we finished our early church history subject (30-451AD). Here are some of the big ideas from the course. It’s taught by Rhys Bezzant, who’s also starting up the Jonathan Edwards Centre Australia. All aboard for Post-Christendom The world has changed already. The Western church can no longer count on […]
I sometimes get the feeling that Christians aren’t much closer to the meaning of gender than anyone else. On the one hand, there’s mainstream Australian Christianity, which often acts as if gender doesn’t really exist, or doesn’t say anything much about it, and so disempowers anyone with a gender. It […]
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