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…
Disclaimer: I have not read the lousy books and I do not plan to see the lousy movies – so shoot me already. But I…
I would like to begin this piece by informing you that God spoke to me. Yes he did, and this is what he told me:…
There are some things that elevate the status of women, and some that denigrate and demean women. Here I want to mention three such things.…
OK, another crisis, another token gesture by the West’s super rich elites. But hey, at least it makes ’em feel good. While it might assuage…
As many of you know, the Rolling Stones are now in Australia. While they may not quite be octogenarians, they certainly are in their 70s,…
One question almost too difficult to answer concerning the state of so much of the West today is this: which is worse, our mental meltdown…