Monthly Archives: October 2009

The disappointment of Rudd’s immigration compromise

By Geoff | Published 30 October, 2009 12:10 pm

””Rudd has an approval rating of 68 per cent [71 per cent in the Nielsen poll]. He has the unanimous loyalty of his caucus. He has an almost non-existent Opposition.
He is in a unique position to change the debate. Changing the way Australia deals with race would be pretty special – that’s Labor hero stuff.”
Paul [...]

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Album Review: “Sigh No More” from Mumford & Sons

By Geoff | Published 21 October, 2009 6:30 pm

I’ve spent the past two days marveling at this album. Having heard the first single: “Little Lion Man” – I was excited about the album from Mumford & Sons. I was expecting the raw emotion you heard in that track: not too stylistically different from the voice of a Glen Hansard. What I didn’t expect [...]

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Four Years On

By Geoff | Published 21 October, 2009 8:42 am

Today marks the fourth anniversary (blogiversary) of TheGeoffRe(y)port. A lot has changed personally in the past four years. I have:

Met a girl, flirted with her, started going out with her,  taken a trip with her, got engaged, married, had our first anniversary and are now approximately 22 months into marriage.
Grown tired of my job, commenced [...]

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Carbon Obesity – Blog Action Day

By Geoff | Published 16 October, 2009 7:19 am

Yesterday, October 15th was “Blog Action Day” – an event I’ve participated in before where each year bloggers around the world all write for the same cause on the same day.  This year the cause is global warming, so once again that’s an issue I’m keen to write about. Given that it’s still the 15th [...]

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Scot McKnight hates sermons

By Geoff | Published 8 October, 2009 4:48 pm

OK. Maybe that’s not quite true. But he’s certainly advocating a fairly dramatic reconsideration of how we do “teaching” in churches, and specifically the place of the sermon in that.
“What is most needed is a complete spiritual formation approach to the entire church and for each person; outcomes need to be formulated by the leaders [...]

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