Pastor John (Page 11)

Pastor John (Page 11)

On being Ecumenical

Last Thursday morning Pastor Andrew and I attended the gathering of the Christian Leaders Network (CLN) here in Toowoomba.  It’s a weekly gathering of pastors and para-church leaders for worship and prayer.  There are generally some forty people that come every Thursday morning although I’ve been to some meetings where there have been more than seventy Christian leaders present. It was great to be able to introduce Pastor Andrew to the other church leaders in Toowoomba and for him to…

Keep it to yourself

This past week I was following a discussion on the Internet about the growth of atheism in Australia. Apparently, according to figures from the latest census, the number of professing atheists in Australia has grown. Our local newspaper triggered the debate by asking whether there was still a future for religion. I must confess that I intensely dislike these kinds of discussions – almost as much as some of the Q&A presentations on the ABC. In the long term they…

Who is it about?

Someone asked whether I still had on file a copy of the “Letters to Keith”, a series of ten letters which were published by the late Rev. Bill Deenick back in the early 90s.  They were written at a time when the CRCA – like so many other churches – was going through the “worship wars”.  I didn’t have my copy anymore.  I suspect that I loaned it out to someone and that they were never returned.  So I contacted…