The New Conspirators – final countdown

Our first international traveller Mark Pierson has just arrived from New Zealand (with a new supply of tea and vegemite for me) and we are on the final countdown for The New Conspirators: What in the World is God Doing.  This is shaping up to be the most exciting conference we have ever held  Our [...]

Award Winning Design for Green Building

Here is some interesting news out of China about an award winning design for high rise sustainable building.  Looks fascinating -there is hope for the future.  Check it out

More Reflections on Lent

Well we are now into the second full week of Lent and if you are anything like me then I suspect that the busyness of life and the tyranny of the urgent that your Lenten practices are slipping into the background. With our conference The New Conspirators, just over a week away and with the [...]

Back From Hawaii

Tom & I just got back from Kauai, Hawaii at some unearthly hour last night.  It was a great trip.  We spent a couple of days with the Bethel College Board and then spoke at the Missionary Church conference hosted by the Koloa Missionary Church on Kauai.  In between we managed to sneak in a [...]

An historic day in Australia

The public apology by Prime Minister Rudd to aboriginals in Australia was greeted with tears by some & animosity by others.  Read more When I spoke to friends Gary & Ev Heard last night it was obvious that this had been a very emotional event for them. Here is a report from Gary’s blog. I [...]

Australia Says Sorry

I thought that you might be interested in this news from Down Under. Better late than never and a very appropriate message for Lent. Morris Stuart and his wife Barbara have been very involved in Aboriginal affairs in Australia. The painting is by Barbara and was inspired by one of the massacre sites in Australia. [...]

1-2-3 Meme

Well I have been tagged twice for this meme – once by eliacin & once once by jweaver at Ogrepraxy so Isuppose it is time for me to respond.   For those of you who don’t know about this meme — you are to grab the closest book, turn to page 123, find the fifth [...]

Archbishop Williams commets on Sharia law

Archbishop Williams made some controversial comments yesterday about the need for Sharia law in the UK.  As you can imagine there has been considerable response:  Some from the BBC ,An Australian perspective, an interesting comment by Richard Sudworth What do you think?

Eco tourism

I just received this email from Stan LeQuire at Eastern University.  If you can help or are interested in more information contact Stan at slequire@eastern.edu The School of Leadership and Development at Eastern University seeks information regarding Christian groups or organizations that are engaged in a specific sector of tourism: community-based ecotourism.  If you know [...]

Ash Wednesday

Well Ash Wednesday is here – a perfect time to consider our mortality and the transience of our time on earth, a good time to reflect on our lives and where we still need to be transformed by God’s work within us.  Here is a prayer from the Episcopal Ash Wednesday Service in the Book [...]