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The Holy and the sinful
I know that I seem to be linking through to just about everything these guys put out there, but “Out Of Ur” has posted another great article, this time by Mike Sares, pastor of “Scum of the Earth” church (what a name). But I was struck by this quote: Boomer Christians tend to divide the [...]
Posted in God Stuff
Also tagged christianity, emerging-church, Generation-Y, God, postmodernism
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Does being like Jesus mean taking on his specific style
OK, this is one that has got me thinking, and given that I’m writing this before I go to sleep (I’m already sitting up in my bed), it probably won’t do justice to it. But after seeing the following quote over on the comments at a post on Jesus Creed (very good blog), something struck [...]
Posted in God Stuff
Also tagged emerging-church, God, Jesus, Ministry, personality, preaching, teaching
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Religious Right. Right?
There are two things that really just hurt about this article. The first is the way in which Christian values have been manipulated to fit in with a political ideology. Conferences like this re-inforce the sentiment that the church is about rules, about being homophobic and xenophobic. When terms are used like “attack on our [...]
Posted in God Stuff, World
Also tagged australian-politics, christianity, justice, politics, poor, religious-right, social-justice
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Building an “Australian theology” – mateship, multiculturalism and malleability
The module for the first semester of my Tabor course is on doing “Theology in Context” – basically making sure that as we (the church in particular) “do theology”, that we are doing so in a way that is applicable to peoples lives and that considers the wider cultural setting. It’s all very good stuff, [...]
Posted in God Stuff
Also tagged Australia, Australian-culture, emerging-church, God, Theology
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Boys will be… wait, where’d they all go?
Very interesting post from a guest contributer over at Jason Clark’s blog (always worth a read) asking what the church needs to do about the noticeable imbalance between the genders in todays church (there just aren’t that many blokes in churches). I know that in my experience so much of the comments in the article [...]