Michael Tinker is a friend of mine from Sheffield in the UK. He is a singer/songwriter who specialises in creating content and productions for discipling children. (He’s a great folk musician too). Michael possesses a range of musical styles and personas in his children’s performances and appears at schools and church groups across the UK. […]
I’ve just started working with an Australian evangelistic organisation in a new venture called Third Space, aimed at both being a third space for non-Christians to ask questions about the gospel, and helping churches find those third spaces for themselves. We believe that while the Western setting has never been more hostile towards the gospel, […]
Focussed attention is our greatest resource Is your church frantic or focussed? That’s a question worth asking. That line above was dropped by the excellent American Rabbi David Wolpe, in a recent podcast with Jewish atheist, Eric Weinstein. We live in a world that is the opposite of focussed attention. Our world is frantic distraction. […]
I’m a late adopter of TV series. I’m the bloke who dismisses it with a shrug, only to binge watch it later and talk about it as if he were an expert on all things that show. So when I say I loved the Netflix series The Good Place, I really did love it. It’s original, well-acted, and it […]
It’s the third Father’s Day since my own father died. Long enough to forget that fact as I laced on my shoes and went on a cool morning long run. Short enough to feel a pang of remembrance as I ran past a young family walking to a Father’s Day breakfast at a cafe. It […]
The response to the Australian Government’s just announced Religious Discrimination Act legislation is proof, if further proof were needed, that there is no longer a shared vision of the good in our country. The common good is no longer common. The common ground is shrinking – and fast. This is the legislation you get in […]
What has made apostasy such an attractive option these days? It’s like a social contagion. Or a social media contagion at least. Christians wringing their hands about where it all went wrong as yet another celebrity Christian leader (a descriptor I have been unable to source in the original Greek) hits the dirt in a […]
‘ Does your church need a fallow year? Sounds like apostasy in the ears of many church leaders, but the conversations I’ve been having with pastors, other paid leaders and lay people indicates that the idea of a fallow year might not be a bad thing for your church. You know what I mean by […]
Iris came into our house and our family via Mum. All the waifs and strays did. That’s how we used to meet them. That’s how they became friends to the point you can’t remember a time not knowing them. Mum would say “This is so-and-so, and so-and-so”, and that would be it. And if so-and-so […]
