Last night we went to the 40th birthday of my longest standing mate. Stu is the only person I have known since high school and am still close friends with.
In his card I wrote: ‘we can’t pull the chicks like we used to, we don’t catch big waves any more and your chances of [...]
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A few weeks back I made a few comments on ‘apostolic women’ or perhaps more broadly ‘pioneering leadership’ amongst women. They do seem to be a rare breed and part of the question is ‘why’? At the Forge national summit I was presenting a session on apostolic leadership that definitely had a blokey edge to [...]
Some people laugh at my preference for old cars – but there is method in the madness
Yesterday while backing my boat into its parking bay, I inadvertently left the drivers door open and it caught on a tree branch, bending it out a little.
It meant that every time I opened it there was a loud [...]
Danelle got back yesterday after 5 days up north at her’s grandmother’s funeral.
I have been looing after the kids all week as well as trying to get a reasonable amount of work done. Reality is I didn’t get much work done at all. With a 4 year old and 2 year old there is very [...]
After the Forge paper of last week that is currently being re-written Steve has a podcast of an interview with Hirschy, commenting on that issue and the distinctions he sees between the different shape the so called ‘emerging church’ is taking around the world.
Also about to happen is a look at the future of the [...]
Tonight a few of us went to see Mother Theresa (the movie) at the Picadilly. Thanks for the heads up Scott
She was one hell of a woman! In a recent post I was reflecting on apostolic women and what shape they take. I reckon she’s a great picture of that kind of woman. Driven by [...]
I went back to have a loolk at the website of the bloke I quoted earlier and came across this article containing these words:
So “I call.” Are you discontented with the church today? Do you have complaints a mile long about how things are done wrong? Do you yearn for a new [...]
I’m not much for these kinds of things, but I have found that people often ask me where I ‘fit on the enneagram.’ Generally I tend to forget… I have done this quiz download harriet the spy online a couple of times, but never make a note of it.
So here it is… as much [...]
Here’s a link to an article a mate sent to me today where the author reflects on baby boomer reluctance to accept the change that may come with an emerging generation or to embrace ‘change or die’ statements.
There are telling lessons in us for those of us re-imagining church and mission to hear at this [...]