On Friday, I was invited to participate in an ecumenical symposium put on by the National Council of Churches in Australia, Faith and Unity Commission. Held in Canberra, the event celebrated 100 years of the ecumenical movement, which traces its…
On Friday, I was invited to participate in an ecumenical symposium put on by the National Council of Churches in Australia, Faith and Unity Commission. Held in Canberra, the event celebrated 100 years of the ecumenical movement, which traces its…
The Bishop is back at Hillsong conference again this year**. Pastor of the Potter’s House in Dallas Texas, TD Jakes is not only an extraordinary communicator but the pastor of a church with an extraordinary missions program addressing issues of…
The Godfather Part II is widely acknowledged as being that rare sequel that equals (perhaps betters) the original, a deserving winner of its six Oscars, including Best Picture. Those setting themselves to the watching would be well advised to start…
My wife and I have decided to watch some of the films that top the charts of best ever movies on lists such as meta-critic and IMDB. Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy tops almost every list but (I am ashamed to…
One of the interesting questions arising from Julia Gillard’s public statement that she does not believe in God is whether or not this will or should make any difference to the Christian vote. I suspect that it will make a…
I mentioned in an earlier post my intention to respond to a review by Rayford Hughes of my article, “Preaching the Full Gospel in the face of the Global Environmental Crises,” published in Amos Yong’s The Spirit Renews the Face of…
The day after her election as the first Australian Prime Minister, all the talk is about the nature of gender and its relationship to power. On the one hand, people on the left are celebrating the rise to power of…
I’ve been thinking a lot about architecture recently. This is strange, because I resolved at the end of 2004 that I would never again be subjected to an assignment that required me to consider the built form (or fibonacci numbers,…
Fred Nile is in the news again. For at least the third time, Nile is introducing a private members bill to the NSW Parliament seeking to ban the Burqa. I understand his frustration. I myself have made numerous attempts to…
I recently had the pleasure of contributing to a chapter to a book edited by Amos Yong, The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth. The chapter is entitled “Preaching the Full Gospel in the face of the Global Environmental…