Churches of Reconciliation: the Diverse Church as Good News for the World

Here’s the paper I gave at the TEAR conference yesterday:
Churches of reconciliation
I shall tell you more about it later in the week, but I told people it would be up here, so I thought I’d better make good on that.

TNIV

I was just going to get around to finally buying a copy of the Today’s New International Version of the Bible and now I hear that Zondervan is going to discontinue it, after a vitriolic campaign against it by the usual suspects of the American evangelical right. It’s times like these that I despair about [...]

Writing for the kingdom response

Jendi Reiter, a Christian writer in the USA, has written an interesting post responding to my paper on Writing novels for the kingdom. You can read it here.

Consuming Jesus : A Review

Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church (Eerdmans, 2007) Available from Koorong for about $20
In this book, Metzger argues that evangelical churches are consumer orientated and this perpetuates the race and class divisions of the world. The gospel, he insists, is the good news that these divisions have been broken down [...]

Christian Centre For Social Action website

Do you know about the Christian Centre for Social Action in East Vic Park? It’s a fascinating place, an ex-post office converted to a drop in centre for the needy and a battle station for advocacy and justice. One of the great things they are doing at the moment is sending shipping containers full of [...]