 I did something this week that I don’t get to do very often – I went along to a junior school musical. Well, if I’m honest, I don’t CHOOSE to do it very often – the few similar “extravaganzas” I have attended in the past have had very little “extrava” or “ganza”… But this one was different. . . . → Read More: Hanging out with kids… I grew up reading C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, but I don’t think I’d ever really appreciated the deep thought and theology behind the series (apart from the obvious, Aslan is a little like Jesus) before I listened to Rowan Williams’s Holy Week Lectures on Narnia. Williams is Archbishop of Canterbury and a world-class theologian; it was fascinating . . . → Read More: Rowan Williams on Narnia 
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die;  Unaware that they were making another Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Irony, our Qantas-Award-winning news network last week aired a story about the detrimental effect that Spongebob Squarepants is having on the attention spans of young minds. Researchers have reported that immediately after watching just nine minutes of a SBSP show “four-year-olds were compromised in . . . → Read More: A kick in the Square-pants for the News networks… 
For the most part I am a big fan of the missional movement that has emerged over the past decade or so. It is my conviction that God has called his church to be a people sent into the world for the sake of the world. We are, as Christians, a people on a mission. However, despite . . . → Read More: Mission without discipleship is like a car without an engine Here is what I promise will be the last in my series of “Coming Home” pieces. It is a clip, coincidentally sent by a friend last weekend, showing what is possible when a group get together with the sole intention of spreading a little cheer among weary travelers at Heathrow’s Terminal Five (and in this case, . . . → Read More: “Coming Home” Heathrow style…  Us Kiwis need some urgent trans-Tasman advice… This week the Manly Sea Eagles’ Media Manager, Peter Peters has been sacked. His principle indiscretion (if there are others, no one is saying what) seems to be a recent sexist slur – apparently, he told Sky News reporter Megan Barnard she was “a good sort.” And that’s where it . . . → Read More: Trans-Tasman “Good Sorts”  Bishop Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) spent 40 years as a missionary in India; on returning to his native England he spent the rest of his life as a missionary to the West. In a recent article called “The Lasting Legacy of Lesslie Newbigin”, Michael Goheen summarizes the theology of Newbigin, drawing out his main insights across many books, . . . → Read More: “The Lasting Legacy of Lesslie Newbigin”  My wife and I returned to our home country of NZ on the weekend after a ten-week overseas trip and it’s wonderful to be back. I am almost reluctant to admit how wonderful it is, because people then presume that the trip somehow failed to deliver or grew tiresome. It did neither and the nine countries . . . → Read More: It’s great to be back in little old New Zealand… Mostly. |
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