I am ordering, as a start, 10 units to give away to those who need it that I meet at The Dining Room or Vive Cafe. So far I have raised $120 of the needed $600. Can you help?
I want to share with you about a fantastic effort by one person to make a difference to the homeless in Australia and beyond. Jean Madden, a former teacher from Brisbane, saw an opportunity for her to make a difference. While not a social worker, or pastor, Jean knew that what she could do, would make a difference for those on the streets.
After a post asking about the whereabouts of this controversial blogger, The Thinking Theologian dropped by and left a note saying the blog was back.
Rumours of my silence-by-lawsuit have been greatly exaggerated…
In early May I was contacted by a Hillsong pastor, with whom I discussed this blog and my motives behind running it.
Whilst it was admitted that Hillsong are unable to close down the blog, I nevertheless voluntarily took down the content; to show willing in maintaining a healthy, constructive dialogue with the Hillsong leadership.
I have since had several conversations with the leadership, in which I voiced my various concerns regarding Hillsong. I remain convinced, however, of the very evident need for frank and open critique of Hillsong’s culture, systems, and world-view.
I have therefore re-posted The Thinking Theologian, and advised the Hillsong leadership of my intention to continue the blog.
Great to have you back mate – and I look forward to your observations about churches of all types!
LOL – Just realised that a previous post that was part of a blog-circuit Q&A with Frank Viola has the wrong title and my mentions about the book in the first couple of paragraphs were wrong.
I had “From Here to Eternity” and the book is actually “From Eternity to Here”.
Can’t believe I did that and I can’t believe no-one picked up on that!
Will leave the title the same for all the links that are to this article.
Apologies to Frank and all the other bloggers and folk who took part!
My wife, Jen, was in the wedding party recently to a couple that met while playing Tribes, an online game, hence the wedding was medieval themed. Here are a couple of the pics from the day.
I have uploaded more of my pics to my .mac gallery – go have a look!
Just a brief note – had a very busy weekend this last weekend. Amongst the busy-ness, we attended some friend’s getting engaged, other friend’s getting married and attended two very amazing and important events in the life of Revive Church.
More on this later – but the Friday night, there was a discussion of What is [...]
*Victor Choudhrie’s 15 essential steps for changing traditional churches into New Testament churches.
1. Replace professional clergy with Priesthood of all Believers with authority to baptize, break bread and equip fishers of men. (1 Peter 2:9)
2. Replace Church building with “House of Peace.” (Luke 10:5-9; Matt. 10:11-13)
3. Replace programmed Sunday service with daily informal gatherings. The Bride of [...]
I was having a coffee recently with a good friend of mine, talk ing about our families and lives, especially since we both have been associated and are associated with faith communities leaving the mainstream church. Over the conversation, we started exploring some of the mental health issues that we have experienced over the past [...]
