A big part of our problem today is most people – including most Christians – think we are living in normal, conventional and unexceptional times.…
I confess. I was once an out and proud member of the 60s counterculture. Yep, I was once fully into the whole thing: the hippy…
About the only thing worse than rabid anti-Christian bigotry is all the clueless Christians who do not know or care about it. There are so…
The sexual anarchists keep telling us that all sexual lifestyles deserve the same acceptance and endorsement, and we should not single out any behaviours as…
You all know what an oxymoron is right? In part it involves a contradiction in terms – or what seems to be. Examples are many:…
All around the world Christmas is a time where hope is renewed. It celebrates the birth of the one who came to save us. It…
If media coverage is anything to go by, most people in the West know a whole lot more about the Kardashian clan than they do…
One can find spiritual parallels with most things in life, so let me try one here, utilising pop music. There are many musical artists who…
Some of the most important questions to be asked and answered by any worldview worth taking seriously concerns the issue of personhood. Such questions would…
The Summer Olympics at Rio are now history (although the closing ceremony is still taking place as I write). There was plenty of gold on…
If a race of hostile aliens from another planet wanted to know how to destroy the West from within, they could scarcely improve upon what…
Admittedly a more catchy title would have been something like ‘The GayFL and GayGE Doing Their Thing’. The Melbourne Age is the state’s most left-wing…
It is a truism that the younger you are, the less likely you will think seriously of eternity, and the older you are, the more…
If you have a lotta money, are good at film-making, can do spiffy special effects, have a half-way decent plot about the end of the…
Sometimes you can learn something from watching a bit of television. And sometimes you might even find some spiritual truths being illustrated there. Hey, I…
By now most of you would have seen the Doritos television ad screened during yesterday’s Super Bowl. It was just one of many spiffy ads…
As an ex-hippy, and an old guy to boot, I could not but help take keen interest in tonight’s news item: ‘David Bowie dead at…
That so many churches today are absolutely addicted to entertainment, razzamatazz productions, and keeping the masses amused and happy is fairly obvious. I have spoken…
One good way to spot a phony Christian is when some crucial moral or social issue comes up. When they declare their hand, that usually…
Once upon a time people got together to play sport and have a bit of fun. Love of the game was the main thing. Not…