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It’s a profound thing to realise that, according to Nancy Guthrie, at creation – “Eden was unspoilt, but also unfinished”. That is, there was still work to be done. And the beings God gave that responsibility to – was us. PICTURE: raffaelemontillo/iStockphoto Humanity are God’s emissaries on Earth, to bring
Chris Watkins makes the argument that in our world there is only two basic ethics open to us. Power expressed through violence. And power expressed through love. ILLUSTRATION: Ilija Erceg/iStockphoto. Most worldviews submit to this first ethic, ie – survival of the fittest; power expressed through violence, force, dominance. Many
G K Chesterton wrote, “The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad…The virtues are mad, because they have been isolated from one another, and are wandering alone”. They have lost their moorings in Christ. PICTURE: dam_point/iStockphoto Thus, the intolerance of tolerance, merciless truth and truthless mercy.
I grew up going to Sunday school and I remember things like “do not steal”, “tell the truth”, and, more than that, “love your neighbour”, and “help others”. They are really baked into my psyche. PICTURE: Element5 Digital/Unsplash In primary school they were the internal thoughts that shaped my behaviour
If you look up at the sky at night you will see stars. You might be awe struck by their beauty and even see patterns to them. But trying to understand any order to them is impossible. Aren’t they simply a chaotic selection of lights? PICTURE: Ryan Hutton/Unsplash Yet we
The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that from the initial burst of energy in creation – the big bang, when God spoke everything into existence, everything is now decaying, dissipating, and heading to a cold equilibrium. PICTURE: name_ gravity/Unsplash This is scientific language for death. When there is no more
We’ve done a funny thing in society. We’ve grouped people by age, putting children in kinders and old people in nursing homes. PICTURE: tylim/iStockphoto I guess it makes sense. It’s easier to treat one group of people in one place, but there are costs to this. Compare working in a
I remember my first pair of jeans. PICTURE: Tendo23/iStockphoto I spent my first eight years in Melbourne. As a child I remember wearing corduroy, but not denim. My next five years were in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Way too hot to wear Jeans. Then I moved to northern
Do you remember all those stories you grew up with – fairy tales and movies? So many of them ended with either a kiss or a wedding. It was the pinnacle moment, and it must have resonated with us, because we watched in our millions. PICTURE: Romanno/iStockphoto I only just
One in three Aussies were born overseas. Think about that. One in three of us were born somewhere else, but now call Australia home. People walking outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Australia, on 21st March, 2016. PICTURE: chameleonseye/iStockphoto When you count how many of us have parents who were
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