The Old Tin Shed

Now surprising for me I know but I like to read   http://boundless-salvation.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/reinventing-religion.html In the post listed above you will note the talk about change and how difficult it is even within the organisation.  I started off writing a reply but found I had far more to say on the topic that I could safely put into a comment so below is a response to his post. For faith to survive it must modernize in some way.  Im not talking about the removal of structure or core beliefs but an acceptance that the world has changed and therefore the people in it.  We are far more education and connected than any other generation in history.  Ideas and information move around the world at the speed of light.  Books are read on digital readers not on paper (well for some of us).  We are reaching out to the stars, and understanding our world better than ever.  I feel as many do that the church has not kept up and as such holds l...

Well i suppose the header says it all.  One of my best friends is in the middle of a major project to bring a business on line.  Now I know lots about the web and computers, I have used just about every version of operating system known to man, and fixed problems that have had others perplexed to the point of replacing systems. So how am I being a bad friend.  When my friend came to me with the idea, I thought it was great.  I convinced him it was worth the effort.  Then the wheels fell off on my end.  I got sick for about 8 weeks and left him in the breeze.  No matter I gave him the guys I use when I have to much work and he has been dealing directly with them.  Cut to this week.  He has just about finished his stock and the website is far from complete.  It needs someones size nine fair up the backside of the main web designer, and a warning about non payment should his lax attitude to this project continue.  It comes do...

Well its that day we wont forget.  Me like millions of others today will post about the events of September 11.  Me personally, I lit a candle and said prayers this morning that those who we lost that day and since in the war on terror.  I prayed for guidance, for clarity and common sense. The world in general changed this day 10 years ago in a way that we could not have imagined.  The old world order collapsed and a time of insecurity and fear started.  I was reading Boundless Salvation which called for open dialogue between all the faiths for calling out of those who use religion as an excuse for violence.  I in part agree, but I don't think we will be able to see this in my lifetime.  While there is such grave injustice between the haves and have not's in the world, and while dictators steal from their people, the west and all it has will be seen as evil and something to destroy.  A reason for their misery.  Add to this that some religi...