If you asked the legendary cricketer that is Shane Warne how he used to leg spin the Australian cricket team to victory he would kinda shrug his shoulders and say something like this: Dunno. Eat a can of beans first I suppose. Have a quick smoke behind the change rooms. Send a cheeky text to […]
The thing about The Young Ones, the cult British comedy from the 1980s, is that it aged badly. Nearly forty years on from the squalor of Thatcher, the program doesn’t fly. I used to guffaw at the antics of Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike. But it would raise barely a chuckle today. The Young Ones […]
What weapons are we using in the wartime we are experiencing? Are we falling into the same trap as the rest of the culture in thinking that if we just get a grip on the levers of power we can shape things the way we want them? Check out the latest Life In Wartime podcast […]
We all know the legend of Rip van Winkle, the man who fell asleep for decades only to wake up and discover his wife dead, his family gone, and time having passed him by. You can imagine his consternation. “But I just sat under this tree for a nap!” Well church, I hope you are […]
In the wake of Aimee Byrd’s cancellation from the Mortification of Spin podcast by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, I wrote two blog posts around the matter. Todd Pruitt, one of the other presenters of the podcast, subsequently contacted me and we emailed each other, as he said (publicly) that I had slandered him on […]
We came up with the title for our podcast Life in Wartime off the back of the statement by our Prime Minister that the pandemic was a war. Little did we know that that war just handed on the baton to another aspect of the culture wars. It’s war, war, war, everywhere we look. And with […]
Okay, it’s a clickbait headline. But Guy Sebastian is cooked. Cancelled. This Australian Idol is set to topple along with any number of statues. He’s as cooked as Colonial Beer and The Wiggles. His crime? Thanking the Prime Minister Scott Morrison for including him in the round table discussion with representatives from the Australian arts […]
I checked out Aimee Byrd’s Twitter account yesterday to see how she was faring in the wake of the furore around her removal from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals podcast (among other things), the no-longer-aptly-named Mortification of Spin. I was appalled. The gutter level of comments from men (and some women) towards her on a […]
Have a listen to The latest Life in Wartime podcast from me and David Robertson, here. And our latest The Kitchen Table discussion on why/if/when society descends into Lord of the Flies is here.
Big word “revivification”. Big word, easy to understand. It means revive. Bring something back from the dead. And that’s exactly what the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals podcast Mortification of Spin has done, it has revived the very thing it always proudly announced it was killing: Spin. Spin. Ah spin, the beloved refuge of politicians and […]
