Hanging out with some of my favourite people tonight. Sadly it’s rare, but fantastic when it happens!

“Bonhoeffer’s vision of Christianity and politics was for a just world delivered by social action, driven by personal faith. Bonhoeffer’s tradition therefore acts still as an eloquent corrective to those who would seek today to traduce Christianity by turning it into the political handmaiden of the conservative political establishment.”
“the Gospel is as much concerned with [...]

Some people are so predictable!

Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of “comment wars” on various blogs. I’ve noticed a few common arguments about why potentially offensive comments should be allowed. I find these arguments really troubling, so I thought I’d spend some time going through three of them.
If you post something controversial, then expect heated responses.
People like to say, [...]

This is kinda amusing – 24 with 90’s technology.

I remember these created a bit of controversy last year. The 2007 range are all online. You can scroll through them in a fancy slideshow window. What do you think about the ‘anti-Santa’ vibe?

The other day, I was chatting with a colleague at work during a lunch function when she asked me offhandedly, “where are you from, if you don’t mind me asking?”
I’ve been asked this question a lot in the past, so I gave my usual answer: “I was born here, but my mother is from Indonesia [...]

…to my husband Sam, who received his acceptance letter from Moore theological college today!
If you can, please pray for us:
*Thank God for his guidance, and pray that he will continue to make clear to us the path He wants us to walk*Thank Him for his goodness in providing all of our needs – physically, financially, [...]

This came from an opinion piece in the herald. What do you think?
Labor 1.0 was the Whitlam government; after emerging from 23 years in the wilderness in 1972 many of its members behaved like pigs at a trough and it was rejected overwhelmingly by the public in 1975. Labor 2.0 was the Hawke-Keating government, vastly [...]

There is nothing like it, especially when the sky is grey and its blustery outside.
There are only three rules with comfort food – it must be served in a bowl, it must be warm and mushy, and the eater must ignore the calories.
My favourites:
Pumpkin soup with crusty breadMashed potatoesMeat pie with gravyHot chips with gravyHot [...]