If you are in the Bendigo region on Friday, 18th Sept, join me for a beer and a yarn ...

"Think about what you want to put into you brain and put that in, and make sure you're not putting anything else in... if you can!" "Time is the real currency, and I really hope that when I'm older and I look back at my life I don't think, 'Dang, when you were twenty you just spent all your time on your phone'." What's it like growing up in a world of screens and social media (and now AI chatbots)? How do we pursue healthy relationships with digital technologies? Jacob sits down with four people under 25 to find out. Listen here: https://mannagum.podbean.com/e/ep-48-interview-growing-up-with-digital-tech/

"By our technology we enact our limits, or our lack of them." Jacob continues to take us through Job asking what it means for us in an age of eco-crisis. In this article, he reflects on the need for limits with respect to our technology if we are to leave room for the rest of creation. Read it here: https://mannagum.org.au/articles/In-Search-of-Limits-Anthropology,-Ecology,-and-Technology-in-Job,-pt.-2

If you are in the Sydney area, come and here Jonathan Cornford speak next Friday at a public forum celebrating the centenary of the publication of R.H. Tawney’s classic, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) was one of the most influential history books of its time, written by one of the 20th century’s most important economic historians and Christian social thinkers. Join us for a fascinating panel discussion to mark the 100th anniversary of a publication that is now largely forgotten. Does it still have anything to say to us today? When: 5:30-8:15pm, Friday 4th Sept Where: St Paul's College, The University of Sydney Find out more and register here: https://events.humanitix.com/a-century-of-r-h-tawney-revisiting-religion-and-the-rise-of-capitalism

Luke's parable of the minas (or pounds) in Lk 19 has got to be one of the most commonly misunderstood parables of Jesus. In this article, Bible scholar Deb Storie helps us hear it properly in it's original context so we can understand what it meant to its first hearers, and therefore what it can and can't mean for us. Read it here: https://mannagum.org.au/articles/A-Parable-Told-in-Jericho

A new edition of Manna Matters is out now! In our first article, lawyer Jono Barnett takes us through the variety of actions renters can take to steer their home in a more ecologically conscious direction. It's full of tips about what rights renters actually have over the house they live in, as well as what can be possible with a little negotiating. Read it here: https://mannagum.org.au/articles/A-Practical-Guide-to-Eco-Renting