As promised, Sandy Grant provides posts with his reflections on the Anglican Church’s triennial General Synod which is being conducted in Melbourne. Grant’s commentary gives insight into a different way of arriving at denominational decisions from my experience within Presbyterianism. (Three distinct voting panels all deliberating together and then voting separately, for instance.) He also …

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Bob Kauflin, writing on his Worship Matters blog raises an issue: In a church context it’s sometimes difficult to know the difference between leading the singing and leading the meeting. It’s an important distinction. After outlining a particular scenario of conflict between pastor and song leader, Kauflin observes: At any point, if my pastor communicates …

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In what turned out to be a time of theological reflection at last week’s General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, the name of N.T. (Tom) Wright was mentioned. Some folk were asking the Assembly to bid our theological colleges to provide an evaluation of what is termed ‘The New Perspective On Paul’ from …

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