Well that didn’t take long. Not long at all. In fact it took a depressingly short period of time. Blink and you’d miss it. Trinity Western University blinked after all. Faced with the dilemma of its law students no longer being recognised as accredited by their professional organisations, Trinity Western University, Canada’s largest private-funded Christian […]
What might the landscape look like if the church in the West disappeared? What would change? Would we even notice the difference? Could such a thing even happen anyway? In his commentary on 1 and 2 Kings, Peter Leithart, notes that in 2Kings 17, when the northern tribes of Israel are finally expelled from the […]
The most positive thing a Christian can do is negative split their life. Sound counterintuitive? Sound wrong? If you know anything about running, you’ll know that a negative split is a great thing; indeed it’s what you are looking for in a race. A negative split is when you do better, run faster, in the […]
The impending fall of the Willow Creek empire – for fall it surely will – is the watershed for the mega-church management model of church. And the rot has not come from without. Just like Israel in the books of 1 and 2 Kings, the rot has come from within. All that those without have […]
The continuing saga of how funding will go for faith schools in our country in light of the Ruddock Inquiry into Religious Freedom. The biggest threat to faith school funding is not from without – what the government might do. The biggest threat to funding could well be from within – what schools are already […]
We’re often told wryly that it takes ten years to become an overnight success. It’s the case with many suddenly popular bands, such as new Orleans Band, the Revivalists, who had a big hit in 2017 with Wish I Knew You, a mere ten years after launching themselves into the music scene. It was a […]
The news that Amnesty International is pushing for the Ruddock Inquiry into Religious Freedom to end all funding for faith based organisations that hold to traditional, religious sexual ethics in their employment requirements is sad, but not surprising. And it reveals, yet again, that groups such as Amnesty don’t get religion. Don’t get it at […]
Keith Green often said that a Christian is a person who is “bananas for Jesus”. So as someone who often feels more like a quince for Jesus, or at times is experienced by others as a “prickly pear” for Jesus, I enjoyed a recent article by Jared Wilson on The Gospel Coalition site about why […]
That’s the question I’ve been wondering the past few weeks, and I’ve seen many pictures on Christian websites – way too many – of rows of bodies waiting to be buried. And just today Sydney Anglican rector, and MSM go-to for all things evangelical, Michael Jensen, posed the same question on Facebook: We are told […]
Rejections of the doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement these days by previously orthodox people come around as regularly as flu viruses in the winter. And they’re just as toxic and catching. Scott Higgins’ latest post is a case in point. You can read it here. It’s got a nice click-baity title in keeping with the […]
