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I’ve been pretty quiet about the emerging church stuff for nearly a year now. You might remember that early on in my own journey as a pastor, I had some big questions about how we ‘do’ church and experiemented with lots of different things. I completed a years internship with FORGE and both read and […]

Sorry for the lack of posts - again.
I crushed my right hand while moving a treadmill last week. Nothing broken, but lots of cuts and bruising. Most of it has heale up now, but it still throbs and the pinky looks a bit yukky.
More proof that manual labour is bad for you…

In the blink of an eye, our first Urban Summer mission is over. I prayed lots of things leading up to and during the week, but there was one thing I had been praying over and over again on a personal level. It went something like this:
“God, when we get to the end of Urban […]

Sorry for the lack of posts this past week, but I’ve been tied up with our Urban Summer mission. More on that in a few days, but for now, here’s my first effort at a Valentine’s Day cartoon for 2007.

Our Urban Summer Mission kicks off tomorrow with some team stuff over the weekend and then a series of projects during the week. Here’s a little of what we’ll be doing:
A team will be going into Eastern Emergency Relief. EER is a volunteer run agency that helps people in need in our community. January if […]

The debate about whether we have free will or whether God determines everything that happens is one that has gone on for as long as time itself. Usually it has been in the realms of religion and philosophy, but in the last few months, quantum mechanics has entered the argument.
Basically, Nobel Prize winning physicist Gerard […]

Reading this article frightens me. A few quotes:
A STAGGERING 337,553 prescriptions for antidepressants were written for children and adolescents in the past year, raising fears about whether “happy pills” are being used as a quick-fix for despondent youngsters.
And later…
Melbourne psychiatrist George Halasz sees the increasing use of antidepressants as further evidence of what he calls […]

When I was a kid and then a teen, I used to ride my bike everywhere. They were the days before helmets were a legal requirement and dragsters were way cooler than a BMX.
Then I got my licence and didn’t touch a bike for about ten years.
But I got back into it just before I […]

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