Archive for May, 2008

Measures of need

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Last week the Grendel family were responsible for our local bread delivery and he wrote an insightful post based on his observations from that evening.
The essence of it was that despite the booming WA economy, the demand for free bread seems to have increased and the desperation of people coming to get it has also [...]

Playing for Nothing?

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Someone has their head up their dark bits…
The back page of the West Australian today reports that Peter Bell of the Freo Dockers is now ‘playing for nothing’. He is receiving a mere $2000.00/game… Wish I could have made a cool $2K a game back in the basketball days.
To be fair to Bell, he has [...]

Losing my Facebook Virginity

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I sent my first ever facebook friend request today…
Will things ever be the same again?…

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How Cool are You?…

Friday, May 30th, 2008

In the spirit of the previous test here is another test to see if you are cooler now than you were in high school.

My Theological Worldview

Friday, May 30th, 2008

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You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God’s grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift [...]

Ignore?

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Don’t you love how facebook sends all these requests which you can either ‘accept’ or ‘ignore’.
Perhaps its just me, but I hate ignoring people. And you do so much of it on Facebook!
I’d much prefer to ‘decline’ your invitation to join the ‘people who drink green tea left handed while riding bare-back’ group. That [...]

SUWA blog

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Amongst the various hats I wear I am an employee of Scripture Union WA.
They have kindly adopted Forge WA and oversee us administratively and financially and because of that link when I wear my ‘Forge WA Director’ hat, I am actually working for them rather than for Forge… Its been a great relationship and [...]

Just Don't Fart…

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Perth trains can get pretty full at times. Before you complain just be grateful you don’t live in Japan…

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Westlake Writes

Monday, May 26th, 2008

My good mate and partner in crime, Geoff Westlake has started a blog where he will be offering some insights of his own.
Geoff is a co-founder of Forge here in WA and leads the Cheers community development network in Banksia Grove. His blog is here and his personal website is here.
Check it out. He will [...]

Disabled Unwelcome

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Mark reflects on the place of the disabled in our culture.
Here’s a snippet:
“Our culture commits this sin of ommision all the time when it comes to the disabled, of course in our politically correct culture we watch our language and terms. But every fashion mag, every music video, every piece of advertising stock photography that [...]