Monthly Archives: May 2010
The Naked Anabaptist
The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith / Stuart Murray (Herald Press, 2010) 143 p., RRP AUD25. I’m excited by the publication of Stuart Murray’s The Naked Anabaptist. It fills that big gap for Anabaptists to explain … Continue reading
Filed under Anabaptism, book review
Ethics in School
It was a fascinating episode of Insight on SBS last night, as audience members put their views on the pilot ethics program in NSW public primary schools. The ethics program runs as an alternative to the ‘scripture’ classes (or whatever … Continue reading
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What happened to the emerging church?
Are you hearing less about the emerging church in the last couple of years? Just as it came on the radar of mainstream evangelical churchgoers? That’s my impression, but then I stopped looking so much. Great post written over a … Continue reading
Filed under emerging church, links
Progressive?
I am not a ‘progressive Christian’ if Fred Plumer and his mob get to define the term – http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2010/2896101.htm. I was listening to Spirit of Things last night and its profile of this movement. If you know me, you probably … Continue reading
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Leaving Home
Last week we said goodbye to our church of three years, Network Vineyard. It was a sad thing; I believe in church loyalty, and yet here I am leaving a church which isn’t bad and at which there are a … Continue reading
The Moment of Death
On Thursday I read a chapter out of a new Brazos book we’ve just bought at my library – Death and Afterlife: A Theological Introduction, by Terrence Nichols. The chapter was on Near Death Experiences. I think years ago I … Continue reading
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