Recently, a friend was asking me about modern church history. By the time I’d finished explaining bits and pieces of it, I had the broad scheme of Evangelical Christianity over the last century—at least my take on it—scribbled on a scrap of paper. Discerning that there could be value in […]
Is our planet warming? If so, is global warming man-made? What should we do to protect the environment? These are questions Australians are asking every day. As followers of Jesus Christ, what should our attitude toward environmental matters be? If we are going to answer the questions of our day, […]
I generally avoid politics in my posts—not because I don’t have anything to say, but because I have a bit too much to say, much of which is not worth saying. But many Australians have been shocked by the events in Canberra last week. These events have opened up a […]
Teaching, cleaning, painting, singing… life is busy in the body of Christ. But what about when it isn’t? What about when you can’t teach and you can’t clean? You’re too weary to paint and you’re too empty to sing? I think we generally find it easy enough to minister in […]
If you thought there was a conspiracy in my writing on conspiracy theories (parts 1 and 2), you were right. I really wanted to bring it down to theology. After all, theology matters. It always matters. So where do we see conspiracy thinking in theology? Well, it seems Christians are […]
In the last post, we saw that the tendency to believe conspiracy theories is a general human trait. This raises a question: why are humans drawn to conspiracy theories? What is it that makes them so attractive to us? Here are some suggestions. Blame – Conspiracy theories are a great […]
[sarcasm alert] You may have been duped by all those media reports on 9/11 about the “terrorist attacks” on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but of course anyone with a brain knows that the US government organised the attacks in cooperation with Al-Qaeda. Oh, and did you know […]
I’ve been meaning to finish up my series on self image for a long time now. You can see the first two posts here and here. Those two posts lay the groundwork for this one. I’m going to try to summarise a Christian self image succinctly. 1) God made you […]
It is a well known fact among bloggers that controversial posts generate more hits than non-controversial posts. As a long-time blogger, I’ve often had to assess my motives at this juncture. I could say something in a less controversial way and get some people to read it. Or I could […]
Several years ago, a friend shared a story with me from a book he’d been reading to his children. He spoke of a land full of shadows—shadows of a country more real than the one we now know. I went to the library and requested the book, The Golden Key […]
