Richard recently linked to the video for “The Teens’ Speech“,  a project of Banardos in the UK that aimed to allow a space where the voices of teenagers in the UK could be heard. Over the course of the project teenagers were asked to share with the nation what issues they are passionate about, to [...]

It’s reported that Lily Allen has decided that she needs to let go of the multiple social networks that she’s been relying on for the past couple of years.  Lily has self-promoted using twitter, blogging and facebook for a while now, her use of twitter has been on par with other twitter star, John Mayer. [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been thinking of doing something like this for a worship space, but I  guess someone’s already beat me too it (and much more beautifully designed than I’d have done it as well). The guys behind Flowmarket (Mads Hagstrøm) have set up temporary stores selling their products which they themselves describe as “An empty sealed [...]

Andy Goodliff recently linked to his top ten list of indispensable books on “Theology and Children,” it’s a great list of reading, some of which I’m now going to have to hunt down. I’ve also noted that he’s added Jerome Berryman’s brand spanking new book “Children and the Theologians: Clearing The Way Of Grace” which [...]

Thanks to Malcolm for this little gem, I’m not too sure if I’m going to be able to use it where I am at the moment, but as for now it just makes me smile a little…

Some people can’t figure out why I have a mac, they get all “ooh you’re too select and cool for us” up in my face. You know what I mean. Then, I get asked to fix someone’s pc and, in amongst all the other things I do I set Windows Update to do it’s thing. [...]

I saw this the other day and it made me rather ill. The Prosperity Gospel from The Global Conversation. Hat Tip to Jason Salamun for the clip. In other news it sounds like people can donate money to From Hunger To Hope (a hunger charity) while that gorge themselves at KFC, how’s that for irony?

I’ve missed out on a few things recently because I don’t have a Facebook account, you see, invitations only seem to go out to those who have an account. If you’re not on Facebook then I’m not going to think “perhaps I should email him” in fact, the reality is that if you do receive [...]

Drops Like Stars is the latest book by Rob Bell and associates, and it arrived in my post box this week.  I’ll be honest, it’s not exactly what I had expected, but it’s beautiful. I’m not one to put someone on a pedestal, I’m more likely to be the one sitting in the corner being [...]