Reviewing the Latest Books

Well the books are stacking up beside my desk and it is obviously time to mention some of my favourite reads for the month.
I have just finished Nancy Ortberg’s Looking for God. A great collection of stories about her life and ministry with some real thought provoking comments. You might like to check out [...]

Church Basement Roadshow

On Monday we hosted Doug Pagitt, Mark Scandrette and Tony Jones for a BBQ lunch. They are on tour promoting their books - Soul Graffiti, The New Christians and A Christianity Worth Believing and entertaining audiences with The Church Basement Roadshow
It was fun to catch up with old friends and make new ones. [...]

Centering Prayer

This morning we are conducting a discernment process to help us listen to God and discern what we, both as individuals and as the MSA team, are meant to be doing.  In preparation for this session I have been reading 2 books that I would highly recommend.  One is Basil Pennington’s classic Centering Prayer: Renewing [...]

Gimmicks for God

Well I am finally back from New Haven and getting my brain and body back on West Coast time. Have been browsing through a few of my favourtie blogs this morning and came across this great post by Eugene Cho.
Can you believe it GodTube has just raised $30 million for its site. Read [...]

Don’t Trade Lives

Tom and I have just returned from a very challenging breakfast talk by David Batsone who is in Australia to promote his book Not For Sale. Seems strange that we travel half way around the world to be challenged by someone who lives in San Francisco. His book is about modern day slavery [...]

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 - [...]

Photos from New Conspirators

Well the conference is over & we all had a great time. I am still feeling a little too overloaded to write much but thought that you might like to check out some of the photos.  Or you could check out the reports on Eliacin’s blog
We also used this as an occasion to launch [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What the World Eats

Some of you may remember that last year for Lent we encouraged people to commit to The Mutunga $2 challenge for a week as a reminder of the fact that half the world’s population lives on less than $2 per person per day. Here is the first in a great series of images [...]