An Anxious Woman in a Faded Floral Dress
George Bernard Shaw once said that if you want to see how a society thinks, look at what it searches for. In this 6-part video series I explore a variety of social trends and suggest that four questions are bubbling up from the Australian soul, questions which I believe hint at a spiritual search.
Readable (11/5)
A weekly roundup of life, faith and spirituality stories. This week (11 May, 2011): prayer in a digital age, losing the art of friendship, the sexism of the hook-up culture, furniture for the kingdom, finding your true self and more.
Jean Vanier on Welcoming the Humiliated
In this moving 7 minute film, Jean Vanier tells the story of Pauline, a woman who arrived at his L'Arch community suffering from epilepsy, paraplegia, and anger due to decades of humiliation. As Jean explains, Pauline needed more than professional help. She needed to be loved, listened to and helped to discover that 'she is
Readable (27/4)
A weekly roundup of life, faith and spirituality stories. This week (20 April, 2011): The Hunger Games, belief about God rises and falls, the new conversion, the gift of service, divine absence, and Silicon Valley's tactics of compulsion.
The Chuck Colson Interview
Former Nixon aid, prisoner reformer, and evangelical statesman Charles Colson has died. Gaoled in relation to the Watergate scandal of 1974, Chuck went on to found Prison Fellowship and become an astute thinker on the Christian worldview. In this interview, one of the last conducted with him, Chuck and I discuss his part in the
Readable (20/4)
A weekly roundup of life, faith and spirituality stories. This week (20 April, 2011): the delusion of the infallible mind, starting the day well, the Passion, adoption, suffering and
Rethink Your Thinking on Suffering
We take pills to ease it, hold prayer meetings to heal it, develop strategies to avoid it and do research to remedy it. We may even doubt the existence of God because of it. But there is one aspect of pain that us moderns rarely consider: That suffering could be part of God's purpose for
Readable (13/4)
A weekly roundup of life, faith and spirituality stories. This week (13 April, 2011): Faith & Health, Grief & Hope, Happiness, and more.
An Easter Parable
Imagine for a moment that you’re a member of an organised crime ring with connections to corrupt city authorities. Imagine that you discover someone who knows your gang’s every deed—every scheme, every secret, every deal, all the money trails. One night you decide to round him up. He has to be silenced.
The Meaning of Life? Here’s a 5th Option
What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of *my* life? In Part 1 of thise series I outlined four popular answers to the question, as seen in our films, books and stories. Here I offer a fifth option. Because, it is my conviction that God gives our lives meaning in at least