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 […]
I made a comment to a non-Christian friend who sends their child to a faith-based school that employs practicing Christian teachers, that their decision to vote YES in the same sex plebiscite might mean they would soon be looking somewhere else to school their child. They seemed surprised. I didn’t say it with any particular […]
Sooner or later reality catches up with the intellectual schizophrenia of gender identity politics and beats it to the line. And sometimes, as in the case of a dispute over prize money for a recent running race at Queensland University of Technology, actually beats it to the line. As the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports, the […]
Forget the furore over the “Easter worshippers versus Christian” Tweets by the former US President Barak Obama, and the former (soon to be again?) Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, about the Sri Lankan bombings. It’s the lack of any social media comment by the up and coming star of the Democrats in the US that is […]
There’s something a little bit thrilling, a thrill mixed with sadness nonetheless, at the huge level of ignorance about the basics of Christianity among the average Westerner at the moment. And it’s a level of ignorance that is only set to increase as the church participation rate continues to decline. While it does not augur […]
It’s a terrible way for it to happen, but with the awful scenes in Colombo overnight, Christian persecution just got its moment in the sun for 2019. And the manner in which it is being reported for what it is – a terrorist attack aimed predominantly, though not exclusively, at Christians -, makes it pretty […]
I was struck today reading the Luke account of Jesus’ trial and death. A key feature of that dreadful day was mockery. Yes there was torture, betrayal and crucifixion. And they are terrible, terrible things. And in that context mockery may seem a minor thing. But not to the Gospel writer: The men who were […]
