by tashmcgill | Dec 30, 2013 | Church, god ideas, Spirituality
These are delicate words. Probably easy to be misconstrued. I expect they might be. Part of me wishes they will be. I think I’d like to be unChristian. It’s such a messy word. The word itself is sharp like a knife but unlike a sharp knife, it tears and...
by tashmcgill | Jan 26, 2013 | Culture & Ideas, god ideas
Whether you embrace change, or change is thrust upon you without warning – the process of transformation is long and hard. I have long been a lover of Henri Nouwen’s journal of letters to himself, “The Inner Voice of Love”. If I was to minister...
by tashmcgill | Apr 8, 2010 | Church, god ideas
Christian culture is near obsessed with the center. Words like mainstream and crossover drip off the tongues of A&R guys like diamonds. Influence is king. The idea of bands, writers, speakers, actors being part of the Christian community and the ‘influence’...
by tashmcgill | Apr 7, 2010 | god ideas, Uncategorized, youth ministry
Yesterday I was having coffee with my frievnd James. He asked if I had ever been employed by a church and whether or not I enjoyed it. I was watching documentary show on TVNZ6 last night, called My God. It was an interview with a Catholic nun, so long in His service...
by tashmcgill | Feb 15, 2010 | god ideas, Uncategorized, youth ministry
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zLExijx22Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1]E hara taku toa, I te toa takitahi ēngari he toa taku tini (My strength is not from myself but from the strength of the group)Please follow Anne, Lars, Marko, Adam,...
by tashmcgill | Oct 5, 2009 | forgiveness, god ideas, Uncategorized
Forgive Thy Brother – by Scott Erickson of The Transpire Projecttonight with the moon full and low in the sky, blue finally to write about you, to talk about you, with lovethe way i used to, with hope and promise and joyfinally i am sick of ache, weighted arrows...