Category Archives: sound bytes

Newcastle mini-muster

Last weekend I gave a talk about Christian Community in urban environments at ‘mini-muster‘. A topic like that could be mere talk-fest material except that it wasn’t – because it was happening in the context of community of people who genuinely want to be like Christ and have been working at that together for quite [...]

love is … a room full of razor blades

If you’re wondering how that could possibly be both true and a good thing, think of Eustace Scrubb in Lewis’ “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” love is loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong suffering. love is not nice pictures of sunsets and flowers. pretending that everything is OK is not love. pretending to love is not love. saying that [...]

Whylandra Crossing ride

Last Saturday wasn’t the first day of spring, but it felt like it. I put on my helmet and pumped up the tyres on my bike and took a ride out along the highway towards Narromine – not quite knowing where I was going. Riding on the highway with cars and trucks doing 110 km/hr [...]