Friday, October 12th, 2007
At the Emergent Gathering in Santa Fe last week a group of parents discovered a common interest in exploring alternatives to traditional approaches to ‘Christian parenting’. Following this up Julie Clawson has launched a new blog, Emerging Parents.
Julie explains that she’s had a very hard time finding people to discuss alternative parenting with, much less learn from their experiences. The few she’s found have not been involved in Christianity. She’s interested in a conversation that wrestles with models of spiritual formation of children outside of the assumed model of Sunday School or AWANA. The blog is designed to help men and women explore holistic parenting ideas, discussing how we can follow Christ as parents, integrating our emerging faith and practices in with how we raise our kids.
Julie has developed a team of fellow bloggers including Mike Clawson, Luke Navarro, Jason Goroncy from St Andrews Scotland, Saranell Hartman, and Lilly Lewin
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Steve Drinkall in Brisbane has launched Postcard Radio, a podcast site focusing on emerging missional church in Queensland, sponsored by the Churches of Christ, Queensland Baptists and Uniting Church in Australia.
Postcard Radio is committed to discovering and interviewing those brave souls who are finding innovative new ways to communicate an old message. All of the people interviewed on the site live, serve, work and play in South East Queensland and all have a passion for helping ordinary Australians connect with the person of Jesus.
I’m one of the first three interviewees, along with two Baptists…
Billy Williams is serving and reaching urban aboriginal people in Brisbane’s northern suburbs. As the founders and leaders of Dhiiyaan , Billy and his wife are reinventing what it means to be the church at a park on any Sunday afternoon.
Mick Cross, youth pastor at Reedy Creek Baptist on the Gold Coast, has taken the challenge of multiplication seriously in his youth ministry. He has restructured everyone into “Tribes” and allowed student interests to dominate where they meet, what they do and who will lead them.
Some of the ideas here are small, some are large. Some involve thousands of people, some involve just a handful. Some require lots of resources and some are completely free. We hope that these stories and ideas will create a new movement of innovation in living and sharing the message of Jesus with people in our region. Tune in, switch your brain on and imagine what else we could do…
www.postcardradio.com
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Stuff.co.nz today published a photograph (by Peter Meecham) of two All Blacks wearing pink as they trained on a northern hemisphere tour in 2006.
The suggestion of pink comes as the All Blacks are required to wear their silver strip in their match against the French this weekend. French captain Raphael Ibanez said that the New Zealand rugby team could play in blue or pink or without any jersey and they would still be the All Blacks.
The poll run by the Fairfax site asks readers to vote on pink, black, silver/grey and topless. There is something about the black and silver that makes the All Blacks who they are. The black and white colours come from the traditional Maori art. What’s missing is red. The All Blacks should be wearing red socks.
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