Speaking of Seth… Seth Godin’s recently put his latest e-book online for free download. “What Matters Now?” is a collection of thoughts from a huge collection of people who share what they’re thinking about at the moment, what really matters to them.  Well worth the download and read you’ll get a small glimpse of what [...]

Seth Godin’s recently written a post titled “Different Kinds of Work” which got me thinking about some of my disillusionment in people within the Church recently… There are so many jobs/ministries/roles/things that people seem ok to put up with, whether it be finance and property committee, the flower roster, making sandwiches for morning tea, washing [...]

Douglas Coupland’s latest book “Generation Y” is out on the shelves.  Set in the near-ish future in a world where all bees are extinct, food becomes scarce, some people start to hand-pollinate fresh produce (which apparently is very tricky, and the food it creates is rather expensive, a little dodgy and hard to get). One [...]

I’ve been listening to Triple J tonight, specifically for the first part of a series of Paul Kelly tribute shows that they hosted in honour of Australian Music Month, and of the musician, poet, storyteller, prophet and muse Paul Kelly. It’s got me thinking about a year-long blog project, one that’d make a kick arse [...]

Resource – The HOT Game The Health educator at the Youth Accommodation Association’s HOT project has drawn our attention to the resource they sell, called, the HOT game. It’s a ‘trivial pursuit’ style board game that deals with issues such as sexually transmitted infections, contraception, handling pressure situations, party drugs, and more. The resource costs [...]

The Mountain Goats have released another outstanding album, and what’s really amazing is that the rather agnostic John Darnielle has taken inspiration for each track on this album from the scriptures. I know that some people will roll their eyes and assume that I’m only interested because of the “theme” of this album, but as [...]

Ben Myers recently posted a piece from one of his lectures on “Baptism and Vocation” from his Ecclesiology subject at UTC, in it he says: Since baptism is itself vocation to discipleship, ordination — or preparation for ordination — can often become a denial of baptism. If you want to be ordained in order to [...]

Nick Cave’s new literary release “The Death of Bunny Munro” has been released as an iPhone application. Rather than (only) setting it up as a download on the iTunes store as an Audio Book (which he has also done) the application combines the audio experience with the text of the book, so you can choose [...]

Where: Adelaide: 8-12 march 2010 With: Jonny Baker, Cheryl Lawrie, Steve Taylor, Tim Hein What: sessions on spirituality & the imagination, intuitive leadership, spirituality & contemporary culture, fresh expressions of church, forming ‘pioneer’ church leaders, worship ‘beyond the fringe’, scripture, spirit & culture an Adelaide Fringe Festival event at Pilgrim UC in the city – [...]

James K.A. Smith recently posted about how he found a full copy of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations on Scribd.  A closer inspection shows that if you’re into philosophy then Scribd is a great place to hang out, it seems that the philosophers have managed to get beyond the ethics of copyright (I mean, to a philosopher what [...]