A bunch of Christians who play Ultimate Frisbee got together recently and chucked around ideas that might help establish and grow a community of Christians in the sport. There are other Christian people around who play, but we don’t all know each other, and many find the culture at tournaments a little difficult at times to reconcile with their faith and practice.

I was in on that discussion.

To get things rolling, we’ve put together a site and a web forum as a means of helping people find out who other Christians are, chat, organise to meet up at tournaments, pray for one another, and a bunch of other things. It may go in different directions. We’ll see.

The aims that we chucked around were the following:

1. Get discussions running on any questions about the Christian faith
2. Get to know other Christians in the frisbee community.
3. Give each other some accountability during tournaments. (Not in a bad way, but you know)
4. Ask about how to handle situations that come up regarding conflicts between frisbee and faith
5. Introduce topics for study, ie. we could have continuous threads running about various sections of the bible
6. Have general fellowship with each other
7. Make online prayer requests… if that’s not too awkward for people.
8. Introduce new people to the concepts and beliefs of Christianity
9. Challenge each other to really show God’s love to everyone!

It’s kinda primarily aimed at those who play at a tournament level, but open to anyone in the frisbee scene. No, you don’t have to be a Christian to join (but understand that this is what we’re on about).

If this sounds like something you might be keen to be a part of, check it out. Sign up, contribute.

And let me know what you think.

To celebrate the unseasonably warm weather, and to entertain the family staying with us, the first snorkelling trip of the season was had yesterday down at Clovelly.

Unfortunately the underwater camera is out to pasture at the moment, having leaked at some point in the past. Not a great amount of fish at the moment, bar a big school out in the deeper section, and a Port Jackson Shark snoozing on the floor.

Elissa made the most of it, having a bit of a kip on the towel back up with Mum.

I have a sneaking suspicion that my relative disinterest in the Olympic Judo and Tae Kwon Do bouts is directly proportional to the number of kung-fu movies I’ve seen.

In exactly 4 years time, there will be a greater number of people than usual stumbling across the seedier underbelly of the web. Google searches will be partly to blame.

The reason?

The Games of the XXX Olympiad.

Swimming has got to be one of the most boring sports ever. As Australians, we’ve picked a dud for our national treasure.

The Chinese have got something right though – Gymnastics rocks. When the Chinese men won the team event at the Olympics, the stadium was packed to the gills with fans cheering on their countrymen. The commentators likened it to the swimmers in Sydney, or to Cathy Freeman’s 400m. Watching the event, though, is far superior. You can see the thrills & spills, the effort on their faces – with swimming you get the reaction at the end as they see their time.

1500m is a long race to sit through with that as the end-point.

(A side note: with those sedition laws passed a while ago, does my patriotism now qualify me as a terrorist?)

Ping pong.

Bible college pastime, ministry aid, tool of international diplomacy.

Penny Arcade reports: parts one/two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Gold.