It felt like we dodged a bullet. The unexpected electoral result of a few weeks back cleared my calendar. As a board member of a Christian school I was assuming an ALP government wold come to power, a party which had vowed to cut all religious exemptions for Christian schools. And that would mean a […]
So Moses was a murderer, right? He failed to do what God wanted him to do and did things his own way. But eventually he got back on track and God used him despite his failures. Just like God can use you, despite your failures. That theme has launched a thousand sermons, and a thousand […]
The thing about zombies is that you can never turn your back on them. Ever. You’ve watched enough zombie series by now on livestream TV to know this. There’s never a point where the zombies go: “Well you’ve bumped off enough of us, and we’ve not even put a scratch on you, how about we […]
The secular always pitches itself, as Charles Taylor reminds us, as a subtraction story; a narrative about what life looks like when all of the detritus of religious myth and legend is stripped away. Once the transcendent is banished to its rightful place in the museum of ideas (or the prison house of failed and […]
This is the 21st century. You don’t need to justify yourself to anyone for anything. The new Mercedes B-Class advertising campaign caught my eye – and my ear – in the cinema the other day. So much so that I grabbed my phone and made a note of the slogan above. The 21st century. Justify […]
You’d think that with ALP politicians now falling over themselves to show how in tune they actually are with religious communities that this would be a time for the progressives to start listening to people they don’t understand. Yet progressive online journals such as The Conversation, are still getting it completely wrong, to the point […]
This is a great story. Billionaire tech investor, Robert F Smith, took the opportunity as commencement speaker at Moorehouse College in the US, to calmly wipe the student debt of every student he was addressing. All 400 students. All $58 million of their debt. Just like that. As a black leader in the US, addressing […]
It’s interesting, and slightly disturbing, watching the glee towards the vanquished following the election, and its shock result, last night. Schadenfreude – the German word to describe glee at others misfortune – abounds at moments such as this. For Bill Shorten it’s the end of a political career. For Scott Morrison it’s the making of one. […]
I was speaking to a well regarded UK apologist, pastor and author by Skype from Scotland the other day and he said this: It’s never been more hostile to the gospel, but never more open either. What he meant was that while there is a concerted push against the Christian frame among the political, cultural […]
It’s almost bizarre that one of the levers being pulled in the last week of the Federal election campaign is whether the Australian Prime Minister can unequivocally state that gay people are or are not going to hell. Yet that’s the squirmy question that the Opposition Leader Bill Shorten presented, unprompted, in a media stop […]
