Are you a “rip it off slowly”, or rip it off quickly person when it comes to the dreaded Band-Aid? Whatever happens it’s going to be “ouchy”, right? So which “ouchy” do we want? Quick or slow? A friend asked me last night if I was feeling pleased that many of the things I’ve been […]
I said here last year that the changes to the Marriage Act would not usher in a slippery slope, but were in fact signs of a precipice. That, in less than 12 months since the plebiscite, this has proven to be the case should be no surprise. And the evidence is mounting. So when did it […]
Noel Pearson’s comments this weekend about the nature of religion remind me of being in a foreign country and struggling to find my way back to the hotel. There you are in Thailand on a week away. You were sure your accommodation was down that side street, but then again it could be the one […]
It’s been a shameful week for those in the left leaning media in Australia this week. For weeks progressive media outlets have been cat-calling the Morrison Government over its failure to release the Ruddock Review on Religious Freedom. “What are you trying to hide?” was the constant cry from the likes of the ABC and […]
There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. Our suburb is leafy. And the council intends to keep it that way. We had to flip the design of our house when we built it last year because a scrappy tree that would have had […]
Derryn Hinch – the self proclaimed human headline (it’s his Twitter handle) – is a boofhead. Always has been. Always will be. A TV shock jock with too much to say, and who says things he has been court-ordered not to say. A bloke who has several contempt of court matters to his name, as […]
Is nothing secular anymore? It’s toe-curling watching the manner in which our most famous building, The Sydney Opera House, has been pimped out to the racing industry these past few days. It feels like something has been hollowed out of us as a nation, and that’s saying something given the cultural turmoil of the past […]
For decades my dad would get up in the morning, make a cheese sandwich – the regular boring cheese, not the classy stuff – get in his car, and drive off to work in some form of semi-skilled low paying manufacturing job in a factory on an industrial estate somewhere. Every day the same type […]
While much of the talk is of bunkering down in the face of a coming cultural exile for the traditional church, we might just be in for a surprising gospel harvest at the same time. Not a harvest instead of exile. Nor in spite of. But because of. Amidst the scandals of rotten in churches […]
The human mind is prepared for tribalism I wish I’d come up with that line, but I didn’t. It’s academic and moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s line in his new book (co-written with Greg Lukianoff): The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions And Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation For Failure. What’s Haidt […]
