Well that didn’t take long. Not long at all. In fact it took a depressingly short period of time. Blink and you’d miss it. Trinity Western University blinked after all. Faced with the dilemma of its law students no longer being recognised as accredited by their professional organisations, Trinity Western University, Canada’s largest private-funded Christian […]
What might the landscape look like if the church in the West disappeared? What would change? Would we even notice the difference? Could such a thing even happen anyway? In his commentary on 1 and 2 Kings, Peter Leithart, notes that in 2Kings 17, when the northern tribes of Israel are finally expelled from the […]
The most positive thing a Christian can do is negative split their life. Sound counterintuitive? Sound wrong? If you know anything about running, you’ll know that a negative split is a great thing; indeed it’s what you are looking for in a race. A negative split is when you do better, run faster, in the […]
We’re often told wryly that it takes ten years to become an overnight success. It’s the case with many suddenly popular bands, such as new Orleans Band, the Revivalists, who had a big hit in 2017 with Wish I Knew You, a mere ten years after launching themselves into the music scene. It was a […]
Keith Green often said that a Christian is a person who is “bananas for Jesus”. So as someone who often feels more like a quince for Jesus, or at times is experienced by others as a “prickly pear” for Jesus, I enjoyed a recent article by Jared Wilson on The Gospel Coalition site about why […]
The noise leaking today from the Ruddock Inquiry into Religious Freedoms in Australia would indicate that Christian organisations that hold to an orthodox sexual ethic in theology and practice should be building their boats for foul weather ahead. That’s a general rule: always build a boat for foul weather. Hope for fair, but build for […]
As a child I’d often wondered how God would collate everything we’ve ever done and present it to us in a neat package on the last day. And then Facebook came along. But seriously. I received the “balloony” thing today, accompanied by a photo of me, congratulating me on my ten well spent years idling […]
England football manager Gareth Southgate is the flavour of the month across social media (flavour of the minute surely!). Lampooned at Euro 96 when his missed penalty saw England bow out against Germany in the semi-finals, he was lauded two nights ago when his new-look England team held their nerve, won a penalty shoot out […]
And the point just before the repentance and then just after:
I am 100 per cent with The Greens in wanting the Lord’s Prayer abolished from Federal Parliament at the start of each sitting day. For 100 per cent different reasons of course. The Lord’s Prayer is too precious and too provocative for Parliament. It’s our prayer, not theirs and we must insist that we take […]
British ultra-marathon star, Steve Way, is one of my favourite runners. Here he is coming third in this year’s Comrades ultra-marathon in South Africa. And it’s not just his story that I like. Though that’s pretty good. A 116kg, 20 smokes a day, pie-eating IT worker who was fed up with being unfit, he hit […]
The reason there has been so much heat in our ethical debates of late is that our secular, sexular culture has moved all of its non-transcendent ground floor projects one floor up to the second floor, a floor given over to transcendence. Let me explain. Our culture has rejected the idea of an external transcendence […]
Christian educational institutions need to get a wriggle on. Schools and other educational institutions that receive government funding have less time than they think to come up with alternate ways to educate students from an orthodox Christian framework and within a specifically orthodox ethical setting. This has been highlighted by the move by Western Australian […]
The trouble with the highly anticipated Incredibles 2 movie is that it is just not credible enough. Fourteen years after our hearts were stolen by the all too recognisable Parr family, a group of superheroes condemned to living par or even below par American lives, all the while knowing they were destined for something better, […]
It’s doubtful whether Marie Antoinette ever said “Let them eat cake”, but her Francophone counterparts in Canada have truly declared “They cannot practice law.” This week, while religious freedom advocates are all eating cake to celebrate the Supreme Court in the USA deciding for Masterpiece Cake shop baker, Jack Phillips, the real future for freedom […]
It’s been my contention that the bodies of the Sexual Revolution tsunami will eventually start to wash up on the shore. It’s also been my contention that the church has to be prepared for that time; to put behind it its sin of falling under the spell of that cultural narrative, admitting it has been […]
So when I read this headline today: I was thinking satirical Christian site Babylonbee. Sure sounds like that sort of thing. Sadly not. You couldn’t make this stuff up. You don’t have to make this stuff up. Cos truth is stranger, more cringingly and disturbingly so, than fiction. Or satire. This is from BusinessInsider Australia; an […]
Why would anyone looking for a solid education in the humanities bother signing up to a western university these days? The hostile rejection/mealy-mouthed surrender by the Australian National University of the Ramsey Foundation’s sponsorship of a centre on Western civilisation is case in point. It was all “hurrumph, hurrumph” and talk about academic freedom, but […]
It’s hard to know sometimes if the cake is fully baked just by looking at it. Sometimes it needs to be skewered to see if it’s done or merely half baked. A baked cake is delicious. A half baked one? Not so much The decision by the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in favour of baker Jack […]
Today is the first of a number of posts on church leadership this week. I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. (3 John 9) What the church needs more of in these straitened times in the West is not natural born leaders, […]
