Pink Elephants You know the funny little trick: “Quick! Don’t think about pink elephants!” And suddenly, a herd of pachyderm of a particular colour palette are all that you can think about. Try as you might you cannot block them out, loud and incessant as they are with all of their florid trumpeting and vaguely […]
Slamming Doors My son is a teenager, but he’s never slammed his bedroom door. Not once. He’s not that kind of kid. No teenagerly displays of petulance. My daughter on the other hand… Well she was a feisty teenager, for sure. In our old house, our old wooden house, with large solid jarrah doors, she […]
Islam: It’s Trending Maybe the historians picking over the ashes of Western Civilisation will call it “Rapid Onset Religious Dysphoria”. Or at least that’s what I’m calling the sudden social media trend among ostensibly progressive, post-religious, sexually fluid activists to come over all Islamic all of a sudden. That’s right parents: Put aside your fears […]
Weak Leadership Time and time again we see bad leadership decisions made by weak leaders. And the church – and parachurch organisations attached to the church -, are sadly some of the worst offenders. And the worst repeat offenders. Not simply the same leaders in the same places making the same mistakes. But other leaders […]
The Right Kinda Christian? Several years ago I was having dinner with my wife’s long-term university friends who had all studied psychology with her back in the day. Great bunch. They’d all met in their late teens in their first couple of weeks on campus, and here they were in their forties still meeting up, […]
This is a still picture from a video of a 77 year old former law professor gunning down two environmental activists who had blocked a road in Panama as a protest. A video is also available on Twitter. I won’t link that. Note the spent casing as it jumps from the gun. This is the […]
I wasn’t able to attend the 2023 Freedom For Faith conference recently. I did attend the 2022 version where I was one of the keynote speakers, whereupon I promptly got COVID (my first awful round) on the trip back. I was also scurrilously misquoted by The Financial Review, whose reporter made me out to be […]
Death In Our Fifties So you reach an age when your friends all start to die. News that Friends star, Matthew Perry, died suddenly on Sunday after an apparent heart attack in his hot tub, met with the usual outpouring of grief. And rightly so. He was a gifted man, a tortured man, an honest […]
Palliative Care Receives a Death Sentence The NSW Labor Government has shown us what the future of aged care and looking after the terminally ill is going to be like. It’s going to be non-existent. In the future, indeed in the present, it is increasingly the case that you will be obligated to die as […]
Hi folks My podcast DeLorean Philosophy is back for a second season. It kicks off with a bang, an overview of the referendum here in Australia around The Voice. Check it out here:
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