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I think I’m officially one of them now…
http://thewillowtreepeople.com/why-i-decided-not-to-critique-the-emerging-church/
A bit weird where your stuff ends up sometimes.

Not sure if you saw Digs on the telly the other night, but now he’s popping up everywhere. Paper, radio, internet and telly - I reckon he’s really the antichrist!
Seriously, well done Digger!

In todays Age Newspaper:
The findings of a controversial documentary claiming that a cave found 26 years ago in Jerusalem held the remains of Jesus Christ have been unveiled in New York.
The doco is being made by Terminator and Titanic director, James Cameron. In an interview I heard today, it was also reported that bones had […]

Read this interesting article in today’s paper…
A small snippet:
MANY Australians will question the priority of churches which have posted signs saying “Jesus loves Osama”, Prime Minister John Howard says.
Several churches, including Baptist churches, in inner-Sydney have the message on signs which also feature a Bible extract saying, “love your enemies and pray for those who […]

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 […]

Echoing much of what I said back here, it seems like the current generation of teens want to make a better go at relationships than the generation before. Thank God for that!
Here’s a quote from the article in today’s Age newspaper:
Youngsters who took part in the study also wanted further opportunity to learn communication skills […]

This article by Danny Katz appears in the Age today. A quote:
No, now Religious Education is a serious recruiting business, and the Christian Class is attracting children of all faiths, because they all get a free Freddo Frog at the end of the lesson — it’s like the mass conversions of the Middle Ages, but […]

As funny as this is, I think we might give it at miss in my youth ministry.
 http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bum-cracker-stunt-backfires/2006/11/10/1162661864399.html
So many cartoons I could draw. So many that are inappropriate…

This article in todays Age newspaper caught my eye and reminded me of an experiment I once tried with a type of online ministry/church.
Through an online forum I had made some internet friends who were asking some fairly significant things about life and faith etc. I’d met with a few of them face to face […]

I’ve always had a respect for the simple living of the Amish communities around the world. When my life gets super busy and life seems far too full, I wonder whether the Amish folk are closer to fulfilling ‘life to the full’ than I will ever be.
Anyway, with the shooting of the Amish school girls […]