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About Me


LIAM BANTOCK
A guy living out his life of discipleship in Footscray while following the Melbourne Victory.

A life simulator?

I got a new computer a couple of weeks back and with it I bought X-Plane. X-Plane is a very good flight simulator. Ever since I got it I have been trying to find time to sit down and practice my flying skills. For someone who has a passing interest in flying but will never [...]

an overworked priesthood?

Firstly, I must apologise to my regular readers. My less than regular posting schedule over the last week and a half has been due to starting work again and struggling to maintain my blogging schedule amongst competing demands. Hopefully it will begin to sort itself out. As I mentioned in a previous post I have [...]

From Sect to Denomination

I am reading “Leadership in the Salvation Army: A case study in clericalisation” by Harold Hill at the moment. It is a great book (so far) looking at how the role of Officership has changed over the history of the Salvation Army. He documents the movement from Officership being differentiated from soldiership on the basis [...]

Opinions required …

Yesterday I had a bit to say on keeping your opinions to yourself. Today I want to come at the same idea but from the opposite direction. We all have opinions, some more than others. Some of our opinions are based on very limited information, the personality of our brand new next door neighbour, whilst [...]

Sit down, Shut Up!

Regular readers will notice that my posts frequency has dropped over the past week. Whilst I still want to maintain the frequency of posting everyday I made the decision last week that I wasn’t going to post just for the sake of posting. One problem with the internet is that there is an over abundance [...]

Christian Feminism

In some of my previous posts I have been reviewing John Cobb’s book. One of the issues he raises is the idea of the church’s response to the Feminist movement. I have been thinking about it for the past few days and thought I would give some of my own thoughts. Most people I talk [...]

My lifestyle choices

I have been reflecting recently about lifestyle change. There are changes I would like to make and I have been thinking about those. I have also been thinking about the difficulty I see others and myself have in making changes to their lifestyle. So I thought I would outline some of the conscious lifestyle choices [...]

Reclaiming the Church – Review

I am taking part in the Transforming Theology Theo-blogger consortium. As a part of this consortium I am going to review John Cobb’s book Reclaiming the Church. I am going to review the book chapter by chapter. My focus is to highlight some of the questions and ideas that Cobb raises that resonate with me. [...]

A missional church?

Did you know that the word translated as ‘church’ in the New Testament, ekklesia, literally means a group of people? It had no religious connotations and was a common word used in society for any group of people that met together. Many Christians have begun to question the role and function of the church in [...]

Need input!

The other day I had a friend who needed a new keyboard. He had spilt water on his old one and it had ceased to work. He had opened it up and tried to dry it out, but to no avail. It was useless and he was unable to use his computer properly. It got [...]