A postcard from AmericaIn October this year, nearly 100 Sydney pastors and elders visited the USA to attend conferences on church growth and observe patterns of church life. One of them, Ed Vaughan, gives us his impressions of life (Christian and otherwise) in America.Dear Tony,Greetings from the US of A.
A lot of the time, we explain our way through the world with a set of sayings. They tumble off our lips and seem to make sense, and they help us feel like we know what's going on and how we should act. But often, when I think I am
Inspired by an article in Briefing #51 called ‘Starving our Children’, one of our readers sent in this Lead Balloon.Lead balloons: ideas only slightly too outrageous to be taken seriously.I really do want the best for my kids; it would be inhuman, un-Australian, even ungodly, not to want that. After