The lights are on

Saturday night for Earth Hour we held a community game night during Earth Hour.  Have you ever tried playing Balderdash by candlelight?  It was not always easy to read the cards but we had a great time and are considering shutting off the lights once a month for a similar evening.  We realized that this [...]

Sydney switches off the lights

Here is a great video of the Sydney skyline last night – with the harbour bridge and opera house lights going dark.

Coming to Australia

Tom & I will be in Australia April 6 – 26. I will mainly be there to visit my family but Tom will also be doing speaking at various events. Here is our tentative schedule. Monday 7 Morling College – Baptist ministers – ‘New Conspirators’ (Mike Frost MikeF@morling.edu.au) Tuesday 8 ——– Wednesday 9 3pm – [...]

Earth Hour Prayer

Saturday evening at 8pm is the time that we are asked to turn off our lights for an hour for Earth Hour. We are thinking of hold a games evening by candlelight & firelight. I think that this would also be a good time for some quiet meditation. Here is a great Celtic prayer that [...]

Invisible children

For those that are in Seattle, here is something you might like to check out. Quest Church and Q Cafe is privileged to partner together to host a screening of the new film, ”Black is for Sunday,” from the non-profit international organization, Invisible Children.  Film will be shown on Monday, March 31 – 7-9pm at Q Cafe with [...]

How Much Water Do You Use

Many people believe that the wars of the future will be over water and not over land.  Billions of people in the world lack access to clean water, yet many of us take fresh clean water for granted and use far more than we need.  How do you do with water usage?  You might like [...]

Ordinary Resurrection People

As I was thinking about people in my life who have lived as resurrection people I was reminded of one of my favourite books Pied Piper by Neville Shute.  I have been recommending it for 30 years.  It is a delightful story that starts in a London club during an air raid in WWII.  An [...]

Living into the Resurrection

Yesterday we held a wonderful Easter celebration at the Mustard Seed House Though the Easter season is over for those in the secular world and even for many in the church, for us it is just beginning.  The 40 days of the Easter season stretch until Pentecost.  As I have already mentioned this is the [...]

Conspiring together

Here is the second of the morning prayers that Mark Pierson did for our conference The New Conspirators.  The emphasis is on multiculturalism and the call to part of a God’s beloved community.  It seemed an appropriate reflection for this season.

Stations of the Cross from New Zealand

Gus Row just sent me the link to these powerful images for the Stations of the Cross that they are putting on in Hamilton New Zealand.  Great way to focus your meditation this week