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, […]
Christians are on a hiding to nothing if they play the persecution card in the upcoming discussion on religious freedom in Australia. There is zero traction in that approach or, as is more likely, there is negative traction in that approach. Let’s be clear. In our current clime it will simply make things worse. Any such claim […]
I want to write this because, in light of the abortion vote in Ireland, everyone wants their say. To write their narrative. To decide what it tells everyone about the direction of the culture. To cheer with the women (and men) in the crowds as the result is announced, or to be appalled that anyone […]
The resounding vote in favour of legalising abortion in Ireland is as much a final rejection of the traditional world in which Ireland has been steeped, as it is a triumph of the individualistic world into which Ireland wishes to step. In his book “Sex and the iWorld: Rethinking Relationship Beyond an Age of Individualism”, Dale […]
Every generation or so someone writes a go-to book for mid-teen Christians and young adults interested in Christianity that captures the tone and mood of the times. 20 or so years back that book was John Dickson’s A Sneaking Suspicion. Those of us involved in Christian youth ministry in Australia bought it in bulk and […]
