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CELEBRATING ROSH HASHANA...

On 9th September, Jews in Israel and around the world will celebrate the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana: ‘Head of the Year’).

     Rosh Hashana falls on the first day of Tishrei (the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar), and is the first of the Jewish High Holidays or Yamim Noraim (’Days of Awe’), on which Jews focus on repentance before Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement).

     On Rosh Hashana, Jews observe a day of rest (Leviticus 23: 24). Rabbis sound a shofar (a trumpet made from the horn of a ram, goat, or antelope), to symbolically awaken listeners and alert them to the coming judgement.

     KARYN MARKWELL's blog on the history and culture of Israel... | more... |

THOUGHTS ON CONTROL...

U2's song Moment of Surrender has a line which simply says “to be released from control”. It is yet another line from a U2 song which has hit me like a brick.

     Just about everything we do in life is designed to keep us in control of our lives. But the life of the cross is about relinquishing control to the only one who is ultimately trustworthy. Oh to be released from control on that day when we will have new bodies and new minds in the fully consummated kingdom of God.

     NILS VON KALM'S blog on faith, life and how it all might fit together...  | more... |

A RHINO CITY; WHY WE CAN PLAY A VUVUZELA BUT CAN'T GO WURFING; AND JESUS ON TENNIS
We've already heard of island archipelagos designed to resemble palm trees or maps of the world. So why not a city shaped like a rhino in Africa? That's the design planners in southern Sudan have reportedly come up with for their capital, the city of Juba.

      DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life... | more... |

THINKING ON POLITICS...

Thinking on politics...Sometimes a door opens and as a Jesus follower you have to decide whether to walk through it. If you are fair dinkum about following you don't leave your God clothes in a pile by the door - you just wear em and walk on in. Mine don't come off.... and they are always clean and fresh, He washes me daily!

     ANN WOJCZUK's blog about life, the universe and possibly everything...  | more... |

FRAGMENTS OF BRONZE AGE LAW CODE FOUND IN ISRAEL

Fragments of a cuneiform tablet containing a law code which parallels parts of the famous Babylonian Hammurabi Code have been found in northern Israel.

     The find - the first of its kind in Israel - was made during excavations conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Hazor. The fragments date from the 18th and 17th centuries BC - the Middle Bronze Age - and are written in the Akkadian cuneiform script. They refer to issues of personal injury law relating to the relationship between slaves and their masters and the researchers say they also reflect the Biblical concept of a ‘tooth for a tooth’.

     DAVID ADAMS reports... | more... |

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JUST BEEN THINKING

• For previous posts on Just Been Thinking, go here... | more... |

• For Ann's diary of her 40 Days of Purpose experience, go here... | more... |

A CHURCH EMERGING: SEARCHING FOR COMMUNITY

I have been grappling with the issue of community for some time now, but was challenged recently by a response to an article on depression recently posted on this site. The lady who posted the comment expressed that although she had been involved in church life for many years she was in fact very lonely and had also experienced depressive episodes during her life. That really got me thinking. How can someone be a church attender, surrounded by many Christians, and yet still be lonely?

     RUSSELL STUBBINGS' blog about church planting, building community, local mission, and new ways of “doing” church... | more... |

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Brass tacks

A blog by Rod Benson, an ethicist and public theologian with the Tinsley Institute.

http://rodbenson.com

Footprints Magazine

www.footprintsaustralia.com/blog

Andrew's Version

A blog by Andrew McGowan, Warden of Trinity College, the University of Melbourne, mainly about Anglicanism, early Christianity and theological education.

http://abmcg.blogspot.com/

The Religious Write

A blog by Barney Zwartz, religion editor of The Age newspaper in Melbourne

http://blogs.theage.com.au/thereligiouswrite/

The Living Room

A blog by Melbournian Darren Rowse on the emerging church, blogging, faith and other "general silliness from south of the equator".

www.livingroom.org.au/blog/

signposts

Blog of Melburnians Phil and Dan McCredden, both involved in leadership in the Northern Community Church of Christ.

www.signposts.org.au

Jesus Creed

Blog of US-based scholar Scot McKnight, a widely recognised authority on the New Testament, Christianity and the historical Jesus.

www.jesuscreed.org

Carl Brettle  - Memoirs of a Skinny Welshman

www.carlbrettle.com

Speckman's Scratchings

www.speckmansscratchings.blogspot.com