The Sexular Age just keeps rolling on. Rolling on like waves on a beach. Tsunami waves. Crashing into a church near you. Let me explain. On a recent interstate trip at a conference I spoke at recently, I was chatting with a woman who attended a church in the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Now, the […]
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Living in None-Land: How the Rest of the West Can Help American Christians in Their Decline
Post-religious America is somewhat like the angry teenager who, in seeking to self-identify in what seems like a suffocating household, becomes self-aware. Do you get what I mean? Self-aware of how transgressive they are. Self-aware of what the house rules are. Self-awareness is akin to an enlightening of the soul. The teen, bless his little […]
ChatGPT: What No A-I hath seen…
The UK TV series HUMANS (the A” is upside down) from a few years ago was a cracking insight into the world of AI, in a near future UK setting. Humanoids are synthetics or “synths” as they are known, and they have been created that are remarkably real, and they do the bulk of the […]
Serving The Thirsty: The Old Church of the Golden Nectar
We went to our newly renovated local pub/hotel last night after work for a meal and a drink, and to check out what is a stunning renovation of an almost 100 year old building. It’s the Bassendean Hotel, about ten minutes walk from our house. It used to be fairly downtrodden and tired, but after […]
The Ultimate Wedding Fail
We’ve all heard stories of wedding fails: smashed cakes, ministers not turning up; grooms not turning up. Perhaps this is one of the worst. Twitter and Jimmy Fallon certainly thought so: When you think it’s all about you, then it’s easy to make it all about you. In John’s Gospel, John the Baptist decides very […]
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