Category Archives: links
Jonathan Sacks on God, Science and the Search for Meaning
In this talk broadcast on Radio National on Good Friday, Norman Swan was interviewing the chief rabbi of the Commonwealth, Jonathan Sacks in front of an Australian Jewish audience. It was a wide-ranging conversation, returning often to questions of science … Continue reading
On the Road 51: Exploitation in Bangkok, the story of Rachel and Leah, and Dave Andrews on Fear vs Love
I’ve just released issue 51 of On the Road, the journal of the Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand. This one is the Women’s Issue. Inside, you’ll find a personal narrative from Bessie Pereira, one of the first women … Continue reading
Filed under AAANZ, links, male and female
New links
I just added links to the blogs of two regular commentators on An Anabaptist in Perth: – Fellow Perth Anabaptist, John Arthur – who has been prolific in recent times! - http://creativelovetheism.wordpress.com. – Trinity Theological College lecturer Marty Foord – … Continue reading
Megachurches on Radio National
I’ve just listened to an interesting program from two Sundays ago on Radio National’s Spirit of Things. The Spirit of Things often seems disconnected from the evangelical/pentecostal world, and it was good to see this intelligent engagement with it. It … Continue reading
Filed under church growth, evangelicalism, links
The early church and war
Back on my ANZAC Day post, there was some discussion in the comments about the early church and war. I haven’t done much reading on this, but The Mennonite has a good introductory article by David Brattston, putting forward the … Continue reading
Filed under history, links, pacificism
The Uniting Church
I’ve sometimes wondered how the very different theological traditions represented by the Presbyterian, Congregationalist and Methodist churches managed to come together in the Uniting Church. The Pressies are Calvinists and the Methodists are Arminians, for a start. I found this … 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
Bogan church
Are we allowed to laugh at bogans? I only do it because otherwise I’d cry. They rule the world, or at least Australia. Things Bogans Like #69 was Megachurches. Besides wickedly lampooning people with too much money and too little … Continue reading
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On The Road 42
Earlier this year I took on the job of editing the journal of the Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand, On The Road. This month my first issue came out! You can download it here. It contains some a … Continue reading
Filed under Anabaptism, links, news and events
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.
Filed under links, theology and literature
