morepraxis

So morepraxis now has a fun place to buy your generous revolution tees – (thanks mike!)
Check out the range of tees (yep they are fair trade) and if you are a creative praxis person and would like to design us something… feel free.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/morepraxis

[ September 27, 2007; 6:30 pm; ] As hundreds of thousands Monks and Nuns march in Burma, please join the people of Burma living in Australia for a candlelight vigil to support the monks and peaceful protesters in Burma. The Australia Burma Network supports the people of Burma in this time of political transition and peace, reconciliation and democracy.

Where: Front of Melbourne [...]

Below is the sections I lifted from Liquid Church (Pete Ward (2002) Hendrickson Publishers) for an elective at UCA/vic/tas Synod this week. The electives had to fit in with the title “Mission as…” I called the elective -Mission as a ?double latte no sugar thanks?
Anyhoo thought other may like to hear and chat [...]

Check out the new JustAct website!
Comparing our Standards
Did you know that the amount humanity currently consumes is more than the earth can sustain? How is this possible? Think about the world as being a bank account. If we simply live off the interest then (theory has it) we can sustain the capital indefinitely. However, if [...]

National Close the Gap Day – Tuesday 18 September 2007 – will give Australians across the nation the opportunity to come together and show their support for closing the 17-year life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians. Why not organise your own small-scale event with our help? You can also [...]

As many of you know I consider generousity, creativity and hospitality to be very subversive practices. They each imagine and transform our world of self interests into a shared spaces of possibility.
Theologically I think this Generous Revolution is based (at least for the Christians) in the counter cultural stance and teaching of Jesus. I am [...]

Found this in the July/August edition of The Wittenburg Door. Enjoy!
The Emergent’s Creed
I contemplate on the big Guy in the Sky,
Visionary of heaven and earth,
and in the Mystic Jesus Christ, a Son, the Lord:
Who might have been conceived of the Great Spirit,
born in a Labyrinth,
buffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified and reinvented in the Eucharist.
He descended [...]

This made me chuckle and then feel quite challenged…..
 
“The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any [...]