mission Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/mission/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:17:26 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/brianharrisauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-brianharrisauthor-favicon-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 mission Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/mission/ 32 32 93416650 Refresh: Is Grey the New Green? https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-is-grey-the-new-green/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-is-grey-the-new-green/#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5626 Since this post originally appeared in 2016 I’ve entered the grey brigade, so read with some interest what I wrote when I was still in my fifties! Is Grey the New Green? On a recent flight back from New Zealand I got to watch The Intern. To be honest it is largely forgettable, but in […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-is-grey-the-new-green/feed/ 0 5626 Our Broken World: A Week in my Australia https://brianharrisauthor.com/our-broken-world-a-week-in-my-australia/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/our-broken-world-a-week-in-my-australia/#respond Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5377 Occasionally I invite some of our readers to write up their thoughts and experiences. Mal W Good describes himself as a pastor, intercultural worker and working class theologian. His experiences of working with Fourth World peoples are sobering and important to think about. In this post he talks about a week in my Australia – […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/our-broken-world-a-week-in-my-australia/feed/ 0 5377 When Church is Beautiful… https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-church-is-beautiful/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-church-is-beautiful/#comments Sat, 04 Nov 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4535 I don’t know if you have ever left a church service thinking, “Wow – that was beautiful – really beautiful.” Given the bad press the church often gets, I can imagine some of the cynical comments that could be forming, but why not put them on hold, and listen to the experience I’ve had the […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-church-is-beautiful/feed/ 5 4535 Is church working for you? https://brianharrisauthor.com/is-church-working-for-you/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/is-church-working-for-you/#comments Sat, 19 Aug 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4427 He is a very committed Christian but recently said to me, “This church thing, it’s just not working for me. The kids are bored, I’m bored, a lot of what happens is silly, and I experience God a lot more when I’m out in nature than when I’m forced to sit still and listen to […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/is-church-working-for-you/feed/ 2 4427 Prolonging the Incarnation of Christ… https://brianharrisauthor.com/prolonging-the-incarnation-of-christ/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/prolonging-the-incarnation-of-christ/#comments Sat, 12 Aug 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4415 It was a comment in a Nomad podcast on the thought of Ivan Illich that I’ve been thinking about ever since: “The Christian vocation is to prolong the incarnation of Christ.” Ponder the sentiment. Those speaking readily acknowledged that a cheap and easy pushback is possible. “How audacious to think we can somehow prolong the […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/prolonging-the-incarnation-of-christ/feed/ 4 4415 When our GPS Flounders: Genesis 12:2-3 as a Correcting Lens https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-our-gps-flounders-genesis-122-3-as-a-correcting-lens/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-our-gps-flounders-genesis-122-3-as-a-correcting-lens/#comments Sat, 05 Feb 2022 22:00:20 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3586 A few months ago I was on my way to speak at a meeting on the other side of Perth (north of the river for those who are locals) and because it was unfamiliar territory, I trusted my phone GPS to guide me. Usually this works beautifully, but for some obscure reason (probably the endless […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-our-gps-flounders-genesis-122-3-as-a-correcting-lens/feed/ 2 3586 Will Kindness Win the World? Insights from the Early Church… https://brianharrisauthor.com/will-kindness-win-the-world-insights-from-the-early-church/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/will-kindness-win-the-world-insights-from-the-early-church/#respond Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:00:05 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2805 Recently I had the priviledge of opening the “Insight” conference for Grace Christian School in Bunbury. This is a slight rework of some of the main points I made on the day… By pretty much anyone’s calculations, 2017 was a tough year for the church – or certainly that is true for the church in […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/will-kindness-win-the-world-insights-from-the-early-church/feed/ 0 2805 Post Post-Christendom… https://brianharrisauthor.com/post-post-christendom/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/post-post-christendom/#comments Wed, 02 Aug 2017 22:00:09 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2624 For the last few decades churches in the Western world have noted, usually with a sense of lament, that we live in a post-Christendom world – in other words, in a world where Christianity has lost its privileged status and is no longer assumed to be true, moral or the default religion of society. We […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/post-post-christendom/feed/ 5 2624 What about other religions? In conversation with Lloyd Porter https://brianharrisauthor.com/what-about-other-religions-in-conversation-with-lloyd-porter/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/what-about-other-religions-in-conversation-with-lloyd-porter/#respond Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:00:17 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2137 In my latest book, When Faith Turns Ugly one of the topics discussed is that of other religions. It is clearly a controversial subject, and some who oppose Christianity, and indeed any form of religion, often point to inter-faith conflict and see it as the source of much of the world’s division. They are consequently […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/what-about-other-religions-in-conversation-with-lloyd-porter/feed/ 0 2137 When God writes straight with crooked lines… https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-god-writes-straight-with-crooked-lines/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-god-writes-straight-with-crooked-lines/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:00:36 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2017 Ever heard someone’s story, scratched your head and thought – ‘that doesn’t make sense. Surely this story is not over yet’? Sometimes you get to hear the sequel, sometimes not. When it’s not, you simply have to trust that God is fully competent, and makes God sized decisions based on significantly fuller knowledge than you or I will […]

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