Hillsong

Gloria Jeans Coffee Dumps Mercy Ministries

by podblack on October 18, 2009

Many, many thanks to Sean the Blogonaut for the alert – here’s the scoop. Earlier on in this blog, I wrote of the Mercy Ministries and Gloria Jeans case, an entry called ‘A Coffee Shop in my Town‘. The article is due to questions about the former editor of young women’s magazines (Marina Go, from [...]

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We Don’t Need No… Education?

by podblack on September 9, 2008

There’s probably still people who attended the education panel at Dragon*Con who wonder why on earth I talked about ‘demonization of teachers and education’. It’s still something I maintain is an additional challenge to improving education and retaining teachers. Not everyone is a member of an appreciated staff nor admired by students of an elite [...]

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Hillsong’s ‘Shine’ Has Dark Side For Girls

by podblack on June 18, 2008

First, I would suggest you read the book review (and even the book!) I wrote on a young woman’s account of leaving the Hillsong Church: I first learned of the Hillsong Church via two sources: one was Peter Bowditch’s Millenium Project site and an interview with Tanya Levin by Andrew Denton on Enough Rope – [...]

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A Coffee Shop In My Town

by podblack on March 17, 2008

I don’t go to the coffee shop Gloria Jean’s often. Usually on a Saturday, I’ll go past it and if I have spare change, I get a cappuchino. Most of the time, I’ll do a drive-through on the way to work, if I feel like a coffee. They have a box, next to the till. [...]

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An ‘Unholy’ Triumvirate – Books By Levin, Williams And Paulos

by podblack on March 1, 2008

Three reviews in one! Enough to make you break out in unholy ditty to the glory of texts that question the power of religion… I first learned of the Hillsong Church via two sources: one was Peter Bowditch’s Millenium Project site and an interview with Tanya Levin by Andrew Denton on Enough Rope – which [...]

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