The sky was cold and dark in Victor Harbor. Music thumped in the background. Conversations were happening all around me. I looked through the crowd and saw a Year 12 student with a couple of police officers. She was a little wobbly on her feet and she was wearing her tattered school dress as a… Read More I’ve Been To Twelve Schoolies and It Gets Better Every Year
At 6am this morning, on four hours sleep, some friends and I stepped out onto dewy lawns as magpies warbled and the sun rose, and we surveyed the carnage of empty cans, broken tents and scattered clothing while sore schoolies began to stir. In a few hours they’d be on their way back home from… Read More Why My Eleventh Schoolies Was My Best Yet
Despite its many faults, Western civilisation has lead the world for centuries in technology, education, science, liberty, and more. Why? Lots of reasons. But the greatest force that shaped us, overlooked by many, is a humble carpenter from Nazareth. // Read this series from the beginning, or start here for how Jesus shaped Heroism. * * * You… Read More How Jesus Shaped the West: Heroism
Despite its many faults, Western civilisation has lead the world for centuries in technology, education, science, liberty, and more. Why? Lots of reasons. But the greatest force that shaped us, overlooked by many, is a humble carpenter from Nazareth. // Read this series from the beginning, or start here for how Jesus shaped Languages. * * * It… Read More How Jesus Shaped the West: Languages
Welcome to Part 2 of Six Myths Christians Should Stop Believing. Some things Christians believe are quite strange. Like the Queen said to Alice of Wonderland fame, even I sometimes catch myself believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast. I haven’t been a pastor long. But I’m becoming convinced that, for my… Read More Six Myths Christians Should Stop Believing (Part 2)
Some things Christians believe are quite strange. Like the Queen said to Alice of Wonderland fame, even I sometimes catch myself believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast. I haven’t been a pastor long. But I’m becoming convinced that, for my own sake as much as anyone else’s, one of my primary responsibilities… Read More Six Myths Christians Should Stop Believing (Part 1)
When my older sister happily married at 21, I was going to be just as happy and just as married by the time I was 21. So I thought. This year I turned 31, and I am very much single. The strangest thing about this isn’t my persisting life stage, but that it took me… Read More Last Year I Was Unmarried—Now I’m Single
“Don’t judge others. Why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own?”—Jesus Around a month ago, five judges in the US changed the course of history for their nation, legalising same-sex marriage in all 50 states. It hit saturation point in the news media; Facebook supplied a… Read More Why Christians should love their LGBTQIA friends the most
