Jodie McNeill lives in Jamberoo, NSW, Australia, and is the Senior Minister at Jamberoo Anglican.
Home: 20 Tate Place, Jamberoo NSW 2533 Australia. Email: jodie@jodiemcneill.com Phone: +61 425 222 338
Each month I’ll be writing for the Southern Cross Newspaper, published by the Sydney Anglican Diocese. The column is called “Youth Working” and this month begins with a consideration of the validity of US-style models of youth ministries in the very different context of Australian high schools.
If you want to discuss the article, please visit the forums at sydneyanglicans.net.
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Read article online at www.sydneyanglicans.net, click here. To discuss the article, visit the forums at sydneyanglicans.net.
Read also the letter to the editor in the March edition here.
In this month’s ‘The Briefing’ you can read a snapshot of my life! Titled, ‘Diary of a roving youth minister’, it records a month’s worth of the blessings and travails of daily Christian service, in which I demonstrate my theology in action.
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If you have any comments or thoughts on the article, I’d love you to drop me an email.
Enjoy!
P.S. In case you’re wondering, it’s not me holding the surfboard…!
P.P.S. Reproduced with permission (c) Matthias Media 2005. You can purchase this edition of The Briefing online at the Matthias Media website for only a few dollars.
Here’s a letter I submitted to the SMH for today’s paper but was not published, concerning the meaning behind the Tsunami tragedy:
“When a falling building killed eighteen people in the first century, Jesus denied that it occurred because the victims were worse sinners than the general public. Yet, he offered this important warning: “But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” (Luke 13:5) When Philip Jensen says of God that “disasters are part of His warning that judgement is coming” (‘God’s will comments horrible, says dean’, January 3), he is only repeating Jesus’ sentiments. If The Reverend Tim Delaney believes this teaching is “insensitive, inhumane and ungodly” (SMH Letters, January 4) then his problem is with Jesus as much as Jensen.”
You can read the original article here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/Gods-will-comments-horrible-says-dean/2005/01/02/1104601246571.html and the page that contains the letter I disagreed with here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/Letters/Religious-theories-fail-to-explain-this-natural-disaster/2005/01/03/1104601295769.html
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Reproduced with permission (c) Matthias Media 2005. You can purchase this edition of The Briefing online at the Matthias Media website for only a few dollars.
