morepraxis

Jesus was an intruder on Big Brother
As soon as he came on two million homes around Australia
Adjusted the brightness on their TV sets.
Within a week he’d won the house over
They found him genuine, passionate, artistic, kind
And he made a divine pasta bake out of next to nothing
He cracked jokes for all ages and races
He played the banjo and sang songs about freeing the refugees
He got down on his knees
Within two weeks, Mooks had brought out the urban robe
Sandals were back in and kids were wearing halos to school
The ratings broke all the records
More people watched Jesus that The Simpsons and Friends and the news
combined

What is greenbelt? John Bell says….
‘Youth festival, music festival, political festival, evangelical festival, development festival, broke festival, harvest festival�Ķ there���s something in all these myths about Greenbelt that is accurate, but nothing entirely true…..’

The IMF and World Bank hold their annual meetings this weekend (24-25 September) and reports suggest that the debt cancellation deal agreed by the G8 at Gleneagles in July may be at risk.

Several European countries in the IMF (Belgium, Norway, Switzerland and The Netherlands) oppose full implementation of the G8 commitments on the grounds that they:

* oppose further debt cancellation without conditions;
* want the cancellation implemented in phases, rather than immediately as the G8 agreed.

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Hi All
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has recently launched an
action network for individuals to sign up to which then sends letters to
your local federal MPs and senators out lining concerns about some of the
harsher changes to occur for people receiving benefits. you can go to the
website and have a look at the letter and if you agree then register and it
is sent off. It is a really simple way to let the federal government know
that they need to consider more than economics when thinking about changing the whole welfare system. So the website is www.acoss.org.au and the ‘take action’ it is on the left.

Thanks for thinking about it. xB

The next morning at 10 a.m. Kendall, dressed in ironed Dockers and a Polo shirt, sings with gusto in the third row at Neighborhood Christian Center.

“Praise God!” he shouts, lifting his hands and prompting others to chime in with “amen” and “glory.”

His infectious enthusiasm is just what the pastor ordered. Kendall isn’t a Christian, but he and hundreds of other people across the U.S. are getting paid as much as $12 an hour by temp placement agencies to pretend to be exuberant worshipers.

“For thirty-six weeks covering a total of 60,000 miles, a sketchbook was sent between four artists, two in Brooklyn and two in Belfast. Every Wednesday, one artist in the collective would receive the sketchbook. It was sent back out the following Monday, giving each artist five days to complete a spread in response to the one that preceded it. A small portion of each entry extends on to the following page. By February, 2004, the book had become a seventy-two page visual conversation composed of drawings, paintings, maps, photographs, smashed cans and mosaic tile.

“We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt and reject everything else in order to believe firmly in Christ, and after you have begun to believe, your faith itself must be tested and purified. Christianity is not merely a
set of forgone conclusions. Faith tends to be defeated by the burning presence of God in mystery, and seeks refuge from him, flying to comfortable social forms and safe convictions in which purification is no longer an inner battle but a matter of outward gesture.”

- Thomas Merton