What is it about a New Year that compels us toward new beginnings and resolutions with born again fervour? Why not birthdays which are personal New Years or Sundays, the start of a new week offering the opportunity to start… Read More ›
cultural-studies
Jesus On TV (Christmas Edition): What would Ted Lasso do?
Is Apple TV’s Ted Lasso a Christ figure that inspires us to live like Jesus? Or does he represent a Christless Christianity that sells us God’s kingdom without the king? Did Ted Lasso do what Jesus would do this Christmas?
The New Rock Stars: How cowboy theology is reinventing apostles as entrepreneurs
Yesterday’s heroes were the cowboy and rock star. Today’s hero is the entrepeneur. Our heroes tell us who we are in the age we live. But can they interpret Christian life and mission? Are apostles also entrepeneurs?
Peace, Love & The Beatles. Part I – Whatever happened to the Revolution?
We are all children of the 60s, even millenials. A lot happened then that shapes our world now. But the decade that opened with the promise of liberation and peace ended with riots and body bags returning from Vietnam. What happened to ‘all you need is love’ and the revolution?
In Praise of Bad Driving: Kant’s metaphysics of freedom celebrated by Kerouac’s On The Road
Do accidents just happen? Or do we encourage bad driving by designing cars where we do less of the driving? Have we hard wired a consumer ethic into our automated technologies of distraction in our quest for freedom? 9 minutes read
Our Sabbath Work: Why we forgot how to rest
Working from home in Covid lockdown has seen an increase in work productivity. We seem to be caught up in an endless cycle of work without reprieve. It seems harder than ever to rest when you can’t even take a holiday away in lockdown! Have we forgotten the meaning of Sabbath? 6 minute read
The End Of Apocalypse: The Matrix, Žižek, and Life After God
The Matrix has been analysed to death but life in COVID lock down is a good time to re-visit this cyberpunk, sci-fi retelling of apocalypse and ask the question – is there still hope? 10 minute read
When Is A Chair Not A Chair? And when can we real-ly know the truth about COVID-19?
Nothing is what it seems. A chair is not just a prop nor is a bug just a virus. How do we know what’s real from fake? A fun intro to metaphysics that won’t hurt your brain. 8 minute read.
Anxiety As Symptom: On moral failure and why zebras are losing their stripes
With everything going on in the world right now there is a lot to worry about – COVID, Afghanistan, climate change. Should we keep worrying or is it possible to save the world and stop zebras from losing their stripes? 10 minute read.
Sacred Cash Cows 