Blogs to change your life

Perhaps you are one of the few people who read this blog who do not also read the Blogging Parson and Nothing New Under the Sun. I'd like to recommend them as important for your life.

Michael Jensen at the Blogging Parson has been posting about the history of Sydney Anglicanism, and challenging us to avoid views of 'escaping the earth' and avoiding social responsibility. He outlines a vision for Sydney christians to have a prophetic voice for the large issues we face as a society.

Byron at Nothing New Under the Sun is such a voice. He gives us a calm and considered christian perspective on the looming (and now here) ecological, economic and energy crises. Byron's blog is an excellent resource for keeping informed. But more importantly, he helps us to think and live as christians within a changing world. It is a blog that every western christian should read and engage with.

The best icebreaker game..ever

Today at chaplaincy group I witnessed what has to be the best icebreaker ever.
Scar stories. Everyone has a scar, or at the very least an injury. In our group we had football reconstuctions, gashes, hooks falls and scrapes. And in one fell swoop, a group of relative strangers (ok we kind of know each other) has winced and laughed and found easy ways to remember each other.

Excellent stuff

H/T Mike Jensen

Give them the Bird

Whenever people pester me about justification, I give them the bird.


Mike Bird's "The Saving Righteousness of God".

Michael Jensen recommends his "Birds eye view of Paul" which seems to say similar things, only quicker

and here is the Bird man himself on the horizontal aspect of justification