Tim Costello is dead right. We’re not being persecuted like Christians around the world and we need to suck it up. I’ve said that for a while now. We’re not getting the level of sheer violence and terror that Christians experience around the globe on a daily basis. But Tim Costello is dead wrong […]
Turns out we’re not going to live as long as we thought we would. Life expectancy in Australia is on the way down. Death expectancy on the other hand… The promise – nay the assertion – a few decades ago that we would soon all live happily and healthily to one hundred, is probably not […]
If only If only If only If only there were someone other than Izzy. Someone not like Izzy who was getting hounded out of his future employment for making a statement about his religious convictions. If only there were some no-name who wasn’t followed in Instagram by thousands, and who wasn’t on social media all […]
The Church tried to conform itself to the world at a moment when the world was becoming uglier. That sentence alone makes the conversation in Catholic journal First Things, between French author and atheist enfant terrible Michel Houellebecq, and Catholic conservative journalist Geoffrey Lejeune, worth the read. It sums up the failed strategy of a […]
The Israel Folau storm has exposed many things, and this is one of them: many ministry workers have little idea of the pressures people face in the modern workplace. They just don’t get it. Not that it stops them making big statements about it. If you’re a Christian ministry worker and you’ve had a lot to […]
I was doing a recovery run the other day, just cruising along the river the morning after a hard effort long run the day before. Stunning Perth winter’s afternoon, not a breeze, not a cloud, nice and cool. Recovery runs are not the time to check your Garmin for pace, in fact you’d be better […]
Just a few posts I’ve written for City Bible Forum recently. I’ve just started working three days per week for City Bible Forum in a new venture called Third Space (so watch this “third” space!). I’ve got the impressive title National Communicator, which just means “keep doing what you’re doing”! I will continue to work […]
So here’s a video from a Scottish public school of a student in a dispute with his teacher which results in him being put out of class for thirty minutes. Oh here we go again, students being rowdy and misbehaving! What’s his crime? Have a watch: pic.twitter.com/Nz0Attx2js — I,Hypocrite (@lporiginalg) June 14, 2019 Go you […]
It was George Burns who is attributed with the razor sharp aphorism: “Sincerity, if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” And working backwards, the key to what makes you in this late modern age is the fake version of sincerity – authenticity. If you can fake that you’ve definitely got it made, and you’re probably […]
It felt like we dodged a bullet. The unexpected electoral result of a few weeks back cleared my calendar. As a board member of a Christian school I was assuming an ALP government wold come to power, a party which had vowed to cut all religious exemptions for Christian schools. And that would mean a […]
