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I’m about to embark on a writing exercise to help our people understand the foundations for why we do what we do. Towards the end of that, I’ll do a bit on “What is Church?” and talk about the various strengths and weaknesses of the different forms of church we see.
What I’m after is a […]

We’re thinking about moving house. Actually, we’re 99% sure we’ll do it, but every so often I feel like the biggest hypocrite in Melbourne.
Katrina has wanted to move for years, but I’ve been pretty stubborn (fancy that!). There’s nothing wrong with the house. We fit in it perfectly and it’s in a great location. We […]

On Sunday night we started a short series on the questions God asks people in the Bible.
The first occurs as Adam and Eve are living happily in the Garden of Eden and then decide to eat the fruit they weren’t supposed to. Realising they were in the nuddy, they made some fig leaf clothes, […]

So, I’ve done some cartoon work for a large, Christian US publishing house and they won’t pay up. It’s not a huge amount (still in the three figures though), but all of my contracts state that payment should be made within 14 days of delivery of the finished artwork.
The work was delivered in August of […]

OK, so I went to the bloodbank this afternoon. (B+ is my type if you’re interested.)
As I was waiting for them to stick the needle in, the nurse says to me, “There’s three veins we can stick this in. The middle one is the one that hurts the least, and the outside two tend to […]

Biddulph’s final (and short) chapter in Manhood is a brief challenge for the guys to get together and be real with each other, talking about life and all that it entails. He says that men’s groups are vital for the men’s movement to bring about a balance in the health and well being of men.
Of […]

As 2005 recedes into the past and 2006 looms full of new hope and dreams, it is perhaps fitting to end my journey through Steve Biddulph’s book Manhood by looking at what he calls, “The Time of the Ashes.”
Eventually, all men learn that not everything works out in this life. The mid-thirties seem to […]