A barren land stretched out below from the mountain top with not a drop of rain in sight from where the sky met the sea to the east. It had been this way for years and the country was on… Read More ›
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Trump’s False Prophets III: Discerning the prophetic voice in Australia
There were many prophecies in 2020 that Donald Trump would win re-election. And interestingly, many of the prophets that foretold a Trump triumph have now come out publicly to repent.1 Two ‘stars’ aligned in 2016 heralding in the reign of… Read More ›
What The Bloody Hell Is An Australian?
This Australia Day raises more questions on our identity. Covid has revealed cracks in our Federation as the States withdraw to colonial borders. Why the paranoia of alien invasion and contagions? What past trauma might have possesed us?
Is It A Wonderful Life? Why we make New Year resolutions
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 ›
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 II – Mad Men and the soul factory of desire
Can mony buy us love? Or make us happy? The Sixties revolution promised love and peace but then sold out to the market. The hippies grew up into boomer yuppies. Their children defined by demographics and brands. Can we still find love without money?
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
The Post Covid Church. Part III – The crisis in church leadership
Church authority has devolved from the Pope in Rome to the Protestant clergy industry. The increased fragmentation of denominations in a post Covid church will precipitate a further crisis in church leadership and denominational authority. How might church leadership change and adapt in the post Covid church?
The Post Covid Church. Part I – Two emerging trends that will accelerate church disruption
The number one question for many of us in church leadership this last year has been, what will church look like coming out of Covid lockdown into a new kind of normal? Will we recover and get back to a… Read More ›
Sacred Cash Cows 