More from Craig Barnes’ ‘The Pastor As Minor Poet’ (Eerdmans, 2009). Craig Barnes seeks to describe what poetic leadership looks like in a culture of anxious worry seeking immediate solutions for every problem. So it is not surprising that the pastors’ continued devotion to great and holy ideals would put them out of step with …

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So, memorising Philippians is falling a little bit behind, but pondering each of these verses over and over again is an engaging activity. Philippians 1: 15 and 18, for instance. Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but other from good will… What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in …

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World news services continue to have trouble with Australian geography. CNN produced, and have subsequently removed, the graphic below, confusing the Australian state of Queensland with the island state of Tasmania, presumably prompted by confusion with the Tasmanian town of Queenstown. via A fine companion to last month’s effort by the UK Daily Mail website …

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