The Australian Budget Online – There’ll be a bucket load of discussions on the internet looking at how the budget affects young people and families that I’ll have to link to later.
Churchgoing on its knees as Christianity falls out of favour – Ruth Gledhill writes on the latest report from Religious Trends which shows statistics that suggest the church in Britain is declining in numbers.
On the frontline: tough job, worse pay – A great article by the ABC on community services, charities and their lack of funding, and how their services are needed more and more each day.
Young offenders on community orders: Health, welfare and criminogenic needs – a paper exploring and understanding of juvenile crime, its health and substance abuse patterns, cognitive correlates and offence trajectories, thereby facilitating effective policies and practices to reduce recidivism, improve health and create prosocial alternatives for young Australians at risk of a criminal career.
50 of the best designs of church websites (in Vandelay’s opinion) – A image gallery of a number of very nicely designed websites, unfortunately I think the list is more about look and design than functionality, what it’s used for, innovation and ministry, but it’s still a great example of what kind of things churches can be thinking about when designing websites. For more ideas check out the series of posts on WWJU.
Who Would Mark Driscoll Worship? – Now, I’ve been known to write the occasional blog post on Mark’s theology and speaking, (*cough* *cough* *cough*) but this is probably one of the better reads I’ve seen in a while from someone wanting to critique Mark’s theology and writing. That being said, now I’ve moved entirely over to this blog I’m going to hopefully refrain from mentioning Driscoll again on this blog for as long as I live, I only mention it now because it’s just oh so nicely put… (ht to Ben for linking the post)
To be an atheist you need God’s help – a parable by Pete Rollins written and used as a part of his lecture on “On the supreme difficulty of atheism and why only the religious can attain it” (download the audio file of this lecture here). The parable is well worth the read, the time, the contemplation… I love Pete’s work, and look forward to reading his new book whenever Amazon decides that it can send it to me…
Books and people make me a better person, the internet does not. – ponders Kester in his post after a discussion he had with a friend made him ask some serious questions about technology, the internet and their role in education.
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