Now this is really silly.

A school in Rhode Island (USA, where else?) has banned the Easter Bunny for being ‘too Christian’. They have replaced him/her with ‘Peter Rabbit’.

Maybe I’m missing the point, gentle readers, but it seems to me that the Easter Bunny:

represents a crass commercialisation that adds nothing to the most significant of Christian [...]

John reports Jesus’ final words on the cross as: “It is finished“.

What did Jesus mean? What was the ‘it’ that was finished? And why does ‘it’ matter?

Keith Baker of Macquarie Anglican Churches spoke powerfully and clearly on this subject on Good Friday. Download this file to listen to what he had to say.

A few weeks ago, I commented about Carols in the Park. Thought I’d share a couple of images (thanks to Max W for the photos) from the event.

First, here’s a photo of your correspondent wearing a subtle disguise…

And here’s one that’s harder to explain…

Let’s just say that the monkey graduated from Moore Theological College – [...]

Not much happening around here for a few more days. I am once again co-ordinating Carols in the Park for Macquarie Anglican Churches.

Venue is Yamble Reserve, Quarry Road, Ryde. The event takes place at 6pm on Sunday, 17 December.

I wrote some time ago about using Pamela to record Skype calls—particularly as an aid to keeping a church congregation in touch with sent/supported missionaries.

I’ve just seen details about another (simpler) Skype plug-in that claims to do the same thing: PowerGramo.

I haven’t used PowerGramo, and so I can’t recommend it. If you try it out, [...]

Not much happening on flyingnerd.com lately. Sorry. Been busy. And distracted.

I’m currently reading God’s Politics by Jim Wallis. Wallis is an American evangelical theologian, preacher and activist.

God’s Politics presents an analysis of the ways in which the political Right has ‘appropriated’ God (inappropriately), and the ways in which the political Left struggles with so-called moral issues.

At Macquarie Anglican Churches we support a number of missionaries in various parts of the world.

One of the challenges of supporting missionaries is the maintenance of interest amongst the congregations: it’s easy to lose contact with people half a world away. We’ve tried (with varying degrees of success) to use multimedia in church to build [...]

On Sunday, 18 December 2005, Macquarie Anglican Churches is presenting Carols in the Park.

The park in question is Yamble Reserve, seen here from Google Earth:

Yamble Reserve is on Quarry Road in North Ryde, opposite Smalls Road. It’s a teriffic venue for the event—we sit in a natural ‘bowl’, so all can see, and there is [...]

Fresh posts have been few and far between for the last few weeks and may be spasmodic for the next few as well.

Quality evangelical audio content is now being made available at sydneyanglicans.net. If you’ve got an mp3 player, why not drop in and have a look?

I’ll try loading some of these into my player for morning walks. Watch out for some comments on the content, here on the Flying Nerd.

sydneyanglicans.net – Welcome to God-casting

Friends and fans of One Eyed Jim, Macquarie Anglican Churches’ resident pirate, will be pleased to know about Talk Like A Pirate Day – September 19.

By the way, do you know why he’s called One Eyed Jim?

For many people, Christian or not, the last book of the Bible—Revelation—contains so much strange content that it appears to be totally incomprehensible. But if you’re prepared to think about about the context of Revelation and the type of literature (apocalyptic) that it is, then everything starts to fall into place.