Just some thoughts I wrote for The Gospel Coalition Australia on ANZAC Day and the need for something transcendent. https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/anzac-day-popular-secular-age/
Author: stephenmcalpine
Paying Attention Is On the Nose
Anyone spot the problem in this picture? Got it yet? Yep, after hundreds of flights, and an equal number of safety instruction demonstrations before the flight takes off, you know that you are supposed to put the oxygen mask around your mouth and nose. You did know that right? These passengers on the unfortunate Southwestern Airlines flight this past […]
Rubbish Thy Neighbour
Transparent waste recycle bins. So we can see what you/others are throwing away. Coming to a suburb near you. An inner-city or coastal suburb near you if you live in Perth, or actually coming to you if you live in one of those suburbs. There’s a good idea in there somewhere, probably down near the bottom under […]
Izzy Theologically Correct Enough For You All Now?
In the aftermath of the media storm that engulfed his comments about homosexuality on Instagram, rugby union star Israel Folau has had a long, and personal article published in online player’s journal Player’s Voice Folau’s great crime in the eyes of the Sexular Culture was to answer a question about homosexual activity in the negative. […]
Willow Creep
The resignation of Bill Hybels from Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago this past week follows the dispiriting pattern of mea culpas we have seen in the secular world, when issues of impropriety are exposed. Something creeps in to the church, a bracket creep in which the church edges its way towards the crisis management […]
The State of Israel
So Israel Folau has not been sanctioned by the Australian Rugby Union for his tweet about those unrepentantly practicing homosexual behaviour ending up in hell. It’s been a merry dance for all concerned. And Folau has managed – just – to stay ahead of the pack. Following a meeting with the ARU it was stressed […]
Be Moved Like Never Before
I’ve noticed the Mazda ads in the bus shelters the past few days. “Be moved like never before” they cajole, offering me a level of transcendence usually reserved for love or religion. The TV ad has been around since mid-2017 and features a series of dancers, floating around the new Mazda CX-3. Visually stunning. And […]
QANTAS: A Threat to Workers and Worshippers Alike?
It’s not often that the progressive and conservative side of life could raise voice in unison against an institution, but QANTAS is certainly giving them the opportunity. After years of big business being the bete noir of the Left for the manner in which it treats its workers; outsourcing, downsizing, sending jobs (and profits) overseas, […]
The Sex Pistols, The Bible and China
What do the Sex Pistols and the Bible have in common? They’ve both been subjected to government bans. In 1977 The Sex Pistols released their version of God Save The Queen, in ironic and chaotic celebration of the Silver Jubilee of the British sovereign. The BBC decided to ban it. The song went to #1. […]
Jordan Peterson and the Courage of the Counter-intuitive
The courage to be counter-intuitive is rare, but necessary. And increasingly rare, and therefore increasingly necessary in this brittle, brutal media-saturated world. This struck me listening to Jordan Peterson (him again!) on Richard Fidler’s excellent ABC Conversations program, a podcast that has three million subscribers. Three million subscribers. Think about that. Three million subscribers listening […]