Thoughts on the difference between being a Christian who creates and Christian creativity by Jeffrey Overstreet at The Rabbit Room. It’s helpful you find yourself considering a book, movie or music and wondering ‘Is it Christian?’ Something that has stayed with me is this quote from Katherine Pearson, which Overstreet uses in his essay. Novelists …

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Mark Peterson expresses some helpful thoughts about why singing with the church is different to group singing which takes place in other contexts, such as footy matches or concerts. Such observations are helpful, lest we stray into the area of making church gatherings more like concerts or footy matches in the hope people will sing, …

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On Staff At Church is a Tumblr blog which uses gifs to illustrate emotions experienced by pastoral types during certain situations. It’s amusingly accurate in some cases. For instance: Me when anyone asks me anything about anything the week after Holy Week: and What I say when a parishioner comes up to me after a …

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