When I look around at our Asian churches in Australia, I see a church that is coming out of adolescence. The second generation church is learning how to ‘adult’ − taking on the responsibility of working in the real world, starting families and so on. But part of this ‘adulting’...
Month: June 2020
Understanding Confucianism Values
The term Confucianism was first thought to be coined during the 17th Century by Jesuit missionaries who saw a strong correlation between the values they observed among Chinese officials and some of the classical texts of Confucianism [Nadeau 2014, 23]. Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC) was a Chinese teacher,...
Confucianism: religion or worldview?
In some East Asian contexts, the concept of religion encapsulates the ideas of an organisation or movement that a person joins, and also something imported from a Western context. Based on that understanding, many people from across East Asia would argue that Confucianism should be classified as a worldview rather...
Proverbs Chapel Series – ‘But it’s just too hard’
Watch the last message from our Proverbs chapel series, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despite wisdom" with John Coulson preaching on 'But it's just too hard', from Proverbs 31:10-21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQugdp-D3OQ