Tag Archives: Reviews

You just gotta see Mary and Max

Friday night Bec and I went to see Mary and Max with friends. Little did I realise I’d see probably the best animated film I’ve ever seen, and certainly the most emotionally captivating one. I think the real key is that it’s ultimately just a beautiful story, and the storytelling doesn’t get compromised at any [...]

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Re-Jesus: The Book “Shaping” Could Have Been

One of my all time favourite books is “The Shaping Of Things To Come” by Alan Hirsch and Mike Frost. It was my introduction to the emerging-missional church conversation/movement (like a bunch of Aussies, and quite a few non-Aussies), and it is a really good read. It’s quite heavy, but at the same time quite [...]

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Geoff’s 25 word book reviews – Part 1

Over the last few months, I’ve been spending the vast majority of my train trips reading books, and as a result I’ve eaten through a great deal of literature. Some non-fiction, some fiction, some I’d recommend, others not so much.  So, in the interests of not letting that experience go to waste, here’s my 25 [...]

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New Feature: IntenseDebate

I’ve just added in a new feature here on TheGeoffRe(y)port, called “IntenseDebate“. It’s a plugin from Automattic (the main WordPress guys), that is designed to improve the commenting functionality of the blog. The main features I can see are that if you want to reply directly to a comment, you can hit the reply button, [...]

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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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