A happy family photo where you can see joy on people’s faces. It often comes about from a special event, or a special holiday. I love seeing joy on the kids faces still, especially so in the every day things we do. Jokes. Funny stories. Looking at something special that crosses our paths in the … [Read more…]
I with respect to the recent census results on religious affiliation, I recently commented that “I’d expect to see these numbers drop considerably as time goes on – because the headline figure of 52% of Australians identifying as ‘Christian’ vastly overstates the number of people heading to churches”, and I thought that this warranted some more … [Read more…]
Not long ago, a prominent story in the news caught my attention, and I have continued to think about it. A man in London deliberately attacked a group of Muslims outside a mosque by trying to run them over with a van. My initial reaction on reading about this was to think that now English … [Read more…]
Its a big day in the media today, because the Australian Bureau of Statistics has released a whole lot of population data (along with some pretty graphics) which has been picked up and reported with gusto. The most common thread, and the introduction to most of that reporting, is that Australians are losing their religion … [Read more…]
This last week has seem some pretty severe attention paid to Margaret Court in the media. Search for what Margaret actually said, and you’ll end up with pages and pages of results of people condemning her, and not actually find what she originally said. Christians need to reflect on this, and recognise what it tells … [Read more…]
Its been about a week now, and I’ve been a bit slow getting to put my thoughts in writing on this one. And there are so many directions that I could go, I’m as spoiled for choice as I am when I visit the local bakery. The thing that stood out to me most in the visual … [Read more…]
Its Easter in the Great Southern. The highways are very busy. The caravan parks are full. People are away for the school holidays, or have had family come visit them down here. Families are taking their last break before seeding begins. Its quite a busy time of year. And in all of this, even for … [Read more…]
Back in the 90’s I remember a news story (or maybe it was a bit in a movie) from the US where a prevention of cruelty to animals type group was prosecuting some satanist cult for the way they were sacrificing goats. My recollection is that at the time people (including myself) had very little … [Read more…]
One things that Christians seem to be as susceptible to as everyone else is pinning our hopes on politics. We look to particular politician or parties or political commentators to back in order to make Australia the way we want it to be (more Christian). Despite the fact that you can’t compel anyone into the … [Read more…]
We set goals in all sorts of areas of our lives. We think about or plan what we want to achieve, and set goals to get there. For some it might be enrolling in a course of study to become something, or be able to do something at the end of it. Or you may … [Read more…]