Monthly Archives: February 2007

The Clergy Question – Movements, Vocation and Institutionalism

Went along to hear Alan Hirsch at Blarney’s last night, and he delivered a pretty standard spiel on his central ideas, particularly around his central “formula” – that our Christology (what we believe about Christ) ought to define our missiology (transposing that into our cultural context) which should then decide the form of our ecclesiology [...]

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Men and church

Rodney Olsen has an interesting discussion proceeding on his blog around “Why Men hate church”. It’s something I’ve had a bit of a crack at in the past, but it’s certainly an issue that seems to be gaining significant momentum in God-blogging discussions. The conversation was in response to an article by the Sydney [...]

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Lent-ing. A hand?

I’ve decided that given that in about 21 minutes, the period of Lent begins (at least it does here in Australia) I’m going to give up eating between meals. My previously acceptable girth has ballooned out due to overly exuberant festivities in the festive season, resulting in the need for some urgent action. So there’ll [...]

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Policy Season

Not only is there a Federal Election on the way (although you might be hard pressed to call some of our politician’s submissions “policies”), but Paulie has taken up the ultimate irony and copied my policy-writing idea with (wait for it..) a copyright policy. Apparently some scum-sucking blogger has flogged poor little Paulie’s post “The [...]

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New to TheGeoffRe(y)port – A Comments Policy

Just because the comment volume on here has increased recently, and also because there’s the occasional comment that makes me unhappy – I’ve added in a brand new comments policy. Have a quick look, and this means I won’t feel guilty if I need to “edit” or just outright delete your comment.

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