Part 1 of 3 Last night on a mild winter’s evening in Adelaide, hundreds of people packed an auditorium, spilling into foyers and corridors in what became a standing-room only event. During a week of wall-to-wall media focus on same-sex marriage, it was by happy coincidence that a UK pastor had come to our city… Read More Same-Sex Marriage Might Set the Church Straight
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
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
