my new blog

If you subscribe to this blog, you will find more from me these days on geoffwestlake.com.  It is more my work site. It’s also a wordpress blog, so subscribe to that as well. 
 This site will become more for my darker, harder, edgier comments.
Cheers.
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Support Hope (AVAAZ commercial)

Support Hope – AVAAZ
I like this commercial - https://secure.avaaz.org/en/obama_hope_over_fear/?cl=175356403&v=2743

Magi Mullets?

Did the Magi wear mullets?
Andrew Jones makes this a worthwhile study!
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What Jesus can do for you

Ask not what Jesus can do for you, but what you can do for God.
After what I’ve said about consumerism in the Church, many oldies may remember that they came to faith based on the things Jesus can do for them. That was one of the sweet things Billy Graham told people.  And they didn’t [...]

Abortion Referendum

If we have to have a 3rd referendum in WA for the “all-important” issue of daylight saving, then why is there no referendum on the real life-and-death issue of whether fetuses are people too? A referendum that simply asks the core question, “Do you think that aborting a 30+ week fetus equals the death of a human?”
This [...]

Pluralism not secularism

“Pluralism means that all people have a place at the table. Its not a secular table, it is a pluralistic table, and therefore no one party can claim absolute control of the table.” Unfortunately Australian governments are consciously pursuing an explicitly secularist table. 
Dr Geoff Tunnicliffe’s quote about the pluralist table continues (in AEA’s Working Together [...]

Gen X gen Y – mark sayers

The Emerging Church is Gen X
One day I was preparing a slide for my powerpoint presentation on Gen Y which compared the cultural values of Gen X vs that of Gen Y. As I looked at the left of the slide which described the values Gen 
X, I suddenly realised thatI could replace the header of Gen X with Emerging Church. The value matched.
 
.http://marksayers.wordpress.com/‘emerging’-church-is-a-gen-x-not-a-gen-y-phenomenon/

I’m Gen X. [...]

History strikes back

Is history a valid way to know things?
The downsides: its open to interpretation, it’s mostly written by the victors, or the survivors at least – its subjective to the writer’s point of view. How reliable can that be? Is not science, a better way to go, with its objective, empirical data, surely this is a better way [...]