[Warning: I don't normally swear on this blog but this post includes some swear words. Just letting you know if you need to prepare yourself!]

'It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; ( Read more... )

In 2008, Matthew, myself and our friend Yi started a Sunday afternoon international bible study at our church. Yesterday our group met for the last time. We finished reading Acts, we celebrated Tao's recent engagement, we prayed for each other and sent each other off to our new ministries ( Read more... )

Usually when I engage with Oliver O'Donovan I am either standing wide-eyed and open mouthed in response to his amazing ideas or gently mocking his inability to communicate with normal people. He is a very smart man, and if you are a Christian you should really listen to what he has to say about ethics and politics. It's just that it's hard to ( Read more... )

There have been some great posts up on some of my favourite non-LJ blogs over the last few weeks. Here they are, corralled into a handy post, for you to check out too.

Green
Five totally not rocket science tips for reducing your footprint at eek.ologyA beautiful post with five simple, logical and pleasant ways to make your life a little more ( Read more... )

I love being an Anglican. It's not because of the bishops, or the Thirty Nine Articles, or the prayer book, or the baptising of children. It's definitely not because of the odd mish-mash culture of grumpy-loving-complaining-hopeful-closeminded-openhearted-conservative-creative Anglicans here in Sydney. It's not even because of the Queen (although ( Read more... )

Tonight I went back to class after two weeks of absence and two weeks of break. Somewhere in there I had missed the wrapping up of our Islam component and tonight we moved on to Buddhism ( Read more... )

A while back I post about how my church was doing a sermon series on understanding the world, including an awesome video of a poem inspired by the story of Adam and Eve and the snake. And also including a promise to put up a link to them sermons when they are available online ( Read more... )

Our church has been running a very intense series of sermons on "Knowing God's World". I do not use the word "intense" lightly. We have covered a whole host of issues: life, death, relationships, sex - so far it's been all through the lens of Genesis and the story of creation and over the next few weeks we will be getting into the other key texts ( Read more... )

We're home now. During our long drive we saw lots and lots of beautiful landscapes and I spent a lot of time mulling over the things I saw ( Read more... )

The thing that I find most difficult to live out properly as a Christian is being prayerful. Prayer, particularly private and personal prayer, is something I really struggle to do well. I find it hard to express myself when I pray quietly and alone, I often neglect to pray for people who I have promised to pray for and I have never succeeded in my ( Read more... )