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Forty Feet Gopher

Wanted to point out a few things of interest on the interweb. The first is to (belatedly) let anyone who didn’t already realise know that Hamo (the National Director of Forge now that Alan Hirsch has taken off for the US) has picked his blogging back up again, and has got already been putting out [...]

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Dangerous Story #3 – A healthy dose of (hyper)reality

The other really significant impact on me from the Forge “Dangerous Stories 2″ National Summit was from Mark Sayers. Mark’s got a pretty solid reputation as being a quality researcher on youth and young adults and discipleship. He’s a funny guy – in all senses of the word – and he communicates somewhat complex concepts [...]

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Dangerous Story #2 – Mr McLaren’s “Framing Narratives”

I must admit, that if I was ever likely to stray into an unhealthy level of admiration for a Christian speaker, Brian McLaren would be pretty close to it. While I don’t agree with everything he says, I really admire the guy and think that in many ways he speaks volumes not just through what [...]

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Dangerous Downloads

For those who didn’t make it, or didn’t make it to all of it, or would just like to hear things again: Alan Hirsch’s blog (The Forgotten Ways) has linked through to some Dangerous Stories 2 downloads here on the Forge WA site. And if you want to get your hands on just about anything [...]

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Dangerous Story #1 – Building Spiritual Muscle

OK, this is the beginning of the re-compilation of my grey matter after having thoroughly filled every cell with fresh new information from the Forge “Dangerous Stories 2″ National Summit. It was an awesome time to hear some collossal concepts, and to break down some crazy ideas. Loved it, and thought that the scene was [...]

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