I’m not saying that. Nick Cave is. When asked by fans on his RedHandFiles blog about why the heck the old Nick Cave is attending the upcoming coronation of King Charles III, the implicit idea behind the question was “You”ve changed as you’ve gotten older. You used to be rock and roll!” The young Nick […]
Category: Writing
Mr Beales
Mr Beales was my form teacher in my one and only year at John Curtin Senior High School in the port town of Fremantle, here in Western Australia, back in 1980. Freo – as we call it – was not the hip, urban, and expensive place it is today, and the school was a mixed […]
Where I Write From
I was 55 yesterday. For a change I did not feel slightly depressed or super reflective on my birthday. I think that since my brush with serious illness at 42 years of age I have watched and metered every year out carefully. Birthdays are houses of parties, and I am often aware of the house […]
Thanks: From the Bald Guy
It was a real honour to have Being the Bad Guys awarded Australian Christian Book of the Year last night at the Sparklit Awards. The standard of writing in Australian Christian books is high at the moment, and I think part of that is down to our “distance” from the bigger evangelical platforms. It feels […]
Today is our 25th
Today is our 25th wedding anniversary. I’ve gotten up early (as I always do) to write this. Jill seems to sleep her deepest at 6am. I pulled the blankets over her gently breathing body, covering her foot up, (one always seems to find itself astray and lie cold bereft in the mornings at the edge […]
A conversation with TGC Australia about my book
TGC Australia’s Andrew Moody interviewed me about my forthcoming book “Being the Bad Guys” recently. It all happened before the US shenanigans of last week, but it’s interesting how in our discussion we speak about how the church needs to move forward in these times. If you’re interested in a copy you can go to […]
Being the Bad Guys: book preorder now available
My book, “Being the Bad Guys: How to Live for Jesus in a World That Says You Shouldn’t” can be pre-ordered now. Here’s a short video giving the intel on what it’s about: Preorders in the US here Preorders in the UK here Preorders in Australia here
Guerrilla Cultural Warfare
The Culture War threatening to tear the West apart has become guerrilla warfare. Once confined to demarcated battlefields such as university settings and political houses, in which all of the combatants were recognised soldiers, it is now being fought street fighting door to door, house to house. And increasingly dining table to dining table, family […]
Marathon#6: A Chasing After the Wind
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, all of them are misty, a chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 1:14) Windy. It was going to be windy. The forecast ten days out from Marathon#6, with me in the form of my life going into it, and it was going to be […]
The Queensberry Rules and Justice
My friend Dave and I have finished our e-novel The Queensberry Rules, which you can purchase from those good people/automatons at Amazon.com here. Something that started as an idea for a literary novel (I came up with the idea five years ago on a train from London to Sheffield and still have those handwritten notes), […]
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