Monthly Archives: November 2008

Pete Rollins on Ironic Christianity

Pete Rollins is a really great thinker, and borders on activism with the ways he challenges us in the church to take another look at the faith we profess with our lives. Have a quick listen to this engaging guy. (Video stolen from his blog: The Fidelity of Betrayal tour: Update III – PeterRollins.net)

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Geoff’s Fillipino-Finnish-Greek Movie Game

I got (disturbingly) inspired by Google Translate, and thought I’d come up with a competition. I’ve taken three movie quotes, and put them through Google Translate: four times. First from English to Fillipino, then Fillipino to Finnish, then Finnish to Greek, then Greek to English again. First person to recognise the source of all three [...]

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Leadership

Jonathan Brink put out the call for a synchroblog on leadership, to coincide with the Federal election over in the US. Given that I’m not exactly in that context, I thought that I’d ignore the context to a certain degree, and just take the opportunity to spew out some thoughts on what leadership starts looking [...]

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Coffeehouse Theology – An Enticing Introduction

When theology blogger and author, Ed Cyzewski was about to release his book “Coffeehouse Theology”, he sent out copies of aforementioned book to a heap of christian bloggers, if they would participate in a “blog tour” (meaning people review the book, each posting on a different day). Due to Rebecca having a really well written [...]

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WordPress 2.7 – Just Makes Sense

I’ve been a big fan of the WordPress platform since the moment I started blogging on wordpress.com (I had one of the early invites and managed to snag “geoff.wordpress.com” – it now seems a shame that I’m not really using it), and I would love one day to put the tedium of Oracle Database Administration [...]

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