A Beautiful Life
What if I’m wrong? Whatever space we happen to inhabit on the worldview continuum, this is a question that is bound to occur to all of us. As human beings […]
What if I’m wrong? Whatever space we happen to inhabit on the worldview continuum, this is a question that is bound to occur to all of us. As human beings […]
A while back, I had a conversation with a young couple considering marriage who had differing perspectives on the role religion would play in the raising of future children. One […]
When the first fleet landed in Australia in 1788, chaplain Richard Johnson characteristically turned to his King James Bible for wisdom. At this first Christian Service, drawing on Psalm 116, […]
On July 23 this year in Nashville, Tennessee, pastor Joe Nelms gave a prayer for a Nascar race. Since then, that prayer has been watched on Youtube over 2 million […]
A story is told that one night Arthur Schopenhauer, a nineteenth century influential philosopher, sat alone in a park in Germany. Thinking he was a tramp, a security guard approached him […]
“I don’t know how it is, my brothers and sisters, but the spirit of the person who actually hands something to a poor man experiences a kind of sympathy with […]
One afternoon, I came home on the 492, the bus line that crosses Rome like an undecided serpent. I caught it at Piazza Cavour, in front of a purse store […]
“God has a plan for your life.” These words can be both reassuring and perplexing. Reassuring, because if God has a plan, then that’s good news. A good God must […]
Consumerism has given us many globally recognisable shapes. Creative types might think instantly of iconic design profiles: the figurine coke bottle, the Nike swish, the sleek Apple Mac. The cynical […]
When people email me, they almost always include some line that goes “please don’t check my spelling” or “I know I’m terrible at grammar” or “I hate emailing an English […]