Politics and the Christian Faith So who’s left, right, or center? interesting chart. Michael Polanyi: Towards a Transpropositional Mode of Leadership Development and Spiritual Formation The first time I heard the name Michael Polanyi was in my theology classes … this “personal knowledge” idea totally resonates with me. and to see it applied to leadership…
The Great Gift of Parenthood
“Children are their parents’ guests. They come into the space that has been created for them, stay for a while – fifteen, twenty, or twenty-five years – and leave again to create their own space. Although parents speak about “our son” and “our daughter,” their children are not their property. In many ways children are…
Towards a Nonjudgmental life
This is such a challenge these days … but there’s a gentle nudge towrda this direction. I believe it’s the Spirit at work. “One of the hardest spiritual tasks is to live without prejudices. Sometimes we aren’t even aware how deeply rooted our prejudices are. We may think that we relate to people who are…
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The Center for the Theology of Childhood When I first came across this site, I went “wow! lots of hard work and thinking has gone into this…” I’m planning to read the following research papers tonight. Children & Mature Spirituality The last few weeks have been good for my own soul just learning to teach…
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Alpha and The Emerging Church – Oil and Water? It’s not uncommon for me to hear someone rushing to church for an Alpha course after work, or a fellow pastor conducting the course in his church nowadays. I’ve been to the Malaysian conference last year, and before Todd became Alpha USA president interacted quite a…
I’m home …
Her chinese name Kye has the picture of Chinese caligraphy in mind and generally gives the idea of “upright” – Xin simply means “heart”. the meanings surrounding the name “Elysia” = sweetly blissful – completely happy and contented – latin origin – blessed home … as far as popularity is concerned 🙂 According to Think!…
Terima Kasih
many thanks to all who managed to pop by the hospital and say hello. many thanks to all who SMSed us and/or gave us a phone call. many thanks to all who posted comments on the previous Elysia Kit blog post and also some who actually posted congrats in their own blogs. Great to have…
Elysia Kit Kye Xin
Well, when we said ready? Both of the girls were ready. Get set … Mummy was all packed up and kind of started feeling the contractions more this morning. We had a great time at the park this morning as a family – all four of us. A good lunch … in the afternoon. And…
Ready? Set … Go!
My lovely wife May Chin seems pretty cool about it (it’s all over her face!) … my fun loving son Gareth is trying to “comprehend” what’s about to happen (as you can see!). We appreciate your prayers and we’re looking forward to welcome a new member to the family. Looks like anything else is going…
Random Thoughts Return
I’ve been posting a lot of random link (with some random thoughts with them) but less “Random Thoughts” post partly because there’s so much going on and I haven’t really slowed down enough to actually allow the “random thoughts” to even settle. I enjoyed a chance to facilitate the PJ Parish Pastors Meeting today –…