Help my unbelief...
1. Introduction: To those whose patron saint is Thomas...Wherever there has been belief, there has also been doubt. And yet Christians are often ashamed to admit to doubts and have difficulty articulating the nature of their doubts. Because faith itself is personal (and not merely propositional), the sting of doubt is in the way it attacks us personally. This book will address doubt as a spiritual condition, rather than particular doubts. In doing so, we will also need to consider what faith itself is, and how a Christian may claim assurance.Part OneReasons for Doubt? An Anatomy of the 21st Century Soul2. I Can’t Trust Myself

Eternity magazine
You may not have seen Eternity magazine yet.But I think they are doing a really good job - the second issue is an improvement on the first, and the first was good. It's a freebie - just go to the website and you can order it for your church anywhere in Oz.In this month's issue, I have written an article about God and laughter.

Movember

Two articles
Is Scripture Clear? Ten Ideas on the Clarity of Scripture is over at Anglican Media.Peace for our time?, my piece on the end of Communism, is now at ABC Unleashed.

Church order
Article 34 of the Thirty-Nine Articles (Of the Traditions of the Church) reads thus:It is not necessary that traditions and ceremonies be in all places one or utterly alike; for at all times they have been diverse, and may be changed according to the diversity of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's word. So - there is here envisaged a liturgical flexibility. Modifications can and should be made for the customs of the place. Christians do not meet according to a rigidly fixed pattern, or aping the historical dress and customs of a time gone by. But the principle is normative, not regulative: that is, freedom is