I've always been a bit lukewarm towards mass appeals like Comic Relief.  The angry young man in me has sneered at the general public opting out of their selfish little lives for twenty-four hours to wear a silly red nose and part with a few quid, in return for a fundraising CD or some comm...

After a full year of work, we're almost done! The "A Question of Mercy" DVD is very nearly complete - yesterday marked the filming of the (hopefully) final bits of footage.Next steps - some editing, get the website ready, finalise the cover design, and a launch evening :)...

I would like to share a quote with you from Tim Keller's book, The Prodigal God.  "Jesus hates suffering, injustice, evil, and death so much, he came and experienced it to defeat it and, someday, to wipe the world clean of it.  Knowing all this, Christians cannot be passive abou...

Everybody's talking about it.  We need to work out how to make our organisation sustainable, they say.  But what does it actually mean?  And is it possible? I work quite a lot with third sector organisations, and many of them approach social enterprise with a Robin Hood perspec...

Premier Colin Barnett made a speech about funding cuts yesterday at a “business luncheon”. The full transcript is here; it was also reported in the Australian. Barnett was speaking at the CEDA-hosted 2009 “Economic and Political Overview”, billed as “Australia’s p...

The December 2008 issue of Comment (published by Cardus) contains an important article. At first glance, it looks like one people might skip. It's called "Can We Hope for a Neocalvinist-Neopuritan Dialogue?" Like I said, easy to skip this article, especially if you don't identify as a member of eith...

WHAT: Reconciliation Week Annual Lectures & Awards Program WHEN: 8:30 a.m. to noon Friday March 6 WHERE: WT Young Library Auditorium University of Kentucky Lexington Click here for a map to the WT Young Library Free & open to the public. DETAILS: This year, while our annual Reconciliation Br...

In September of 2006, I wrote a piece called The Future of White Boy Clubs taking to task Ryan Carson for putting together a speaker lineup for his Future of Web Apps conference made up entirely of white men (for the record, Tantek resents being lumped in as “white”; he’s says he’s T...

Sometimes thinking can get in the way of action.  I drove past the offices of our local newspaper yesterday and passed a picket line of newspaper staff who are striking over compulsory redundancies.  I was invited to beep my horn in support. My hand hovered over the steering wheel and by...

FaithfulDemocrats.org. Except the joke's not funny, with offerings such as this pantload from a Catholic hospital chaplain: "We know Christ transcends death, but can Christ transcend choice?" ... I think our discussion on the legality of abortion needs to take into account the spiritual nature of ch...