US pastor John MacArthur is behaving like the moody teenager whose parents “know nothing” and should get out of his way and “don’t tell me what to do.” You know the type. The same moody teenager who is more than happy to take mum’s and dad’s money, drive their car and eat the meals pushed […]
The second innings of the Sydney Anglican Senior Minister drought began on The Pastor’s Heart last week with two Sydney rectors. And they pretty much played a straight bat. After all, if you’re facing a first innings deficit (I thought in my response to Phillip Jensen’s first outing, I put on a handy lead), you […]
He was utterly devoid of careerism. Would that that be said of me when I die. These words were actually said of JI Packer, who has just passed away, and gone to be with the Lord. And they’re convicting and challenging words. You can read them here in Christianity Today. Utterly devoid of careerism. They’re […]
If you asked the legendary cricketer that is Shane Warne how he used to leg spin the Australian cricket team to victory he would kinda shrug his shoulders and say something like this: Dunno. Eat a can of beans first I suppose. Have a quick smoke behind the change rooms. Send a cheeky text to […]
The thing about The Young Ones, the cult British comedy from the 1980s, is that it aged badly. Nearly forty years on from the squalor of Thatcher, the program doesn’t fly. I used to guffaw at the antics of Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike. But it would raise barely a chuckle today. The Young Ones […]
What weapons are we using in the wartime we are experiencing? Are we falling into the same trap as the rest of the culture in thinking that if we just get a grip on the levers of power we can shape things the way we want them? Check out the latest Life In Wartime podcast […]
We all know the legend of Rip van Winkle, the man who fell asleep for decades only to wake up and discover his wife dead, his family gone, and time having passed him by. You can imagine his consternation. “But I just sat under this tree for a nap!” Well church, I hope you are […]
In the wake of Aimee Byrd’s cancellation from the Mortification of Spin podcast by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, I wrote two blog posts around the matter. Todd Pruitt, one of the other presenters of the podcast, subsequently contacted me and we emailed each other, as he said (publicly) that I had slandered him on […]
We came up with the title for our podcast Life in Wartime off the back of the statement by our Prime Minister that the pandemic was a war. Little did we know that that war just handed on the baton to another aspect of the culture wars. It’s war, war, war, everywhere we look. And with […]
Okay, it’s a clickbait headline. But Guy Sebastian is cooked. Cancelled. This Australian Idol is set to topple along with any number of statues. He’s as cooked as Colonial Beer and The Wiggles. His crime? Thanking the Prime Minister Scott Morrison for including him in the round table discussion with representatives from the Australian arts […]
