Covid is just another sign that we live in a broken world.

Sombre thoughts and wild ecstatic celebration, death and resurrection, a breathless determination to find hope.

The Australian pub: a place where lives are changed, futures decided and many narratives find a home, are told and are shared to make sense of life. Anyone who finds the pub a place of energy, and who wants to hear the lay voice, would benefit from reading Pub Theology.

Remembering Christmas: kids, mowing and soldiers.

The Bill is needed to protect past and future victims of 'Conversion Therapy' and does not conflict with the proper exercise of religious freedoms. The passing of the Bill is an opportunity not for further polarisation, but understanding.

While deeply lamenting the great costs to LGBTI+ victims of Conversion Therapy, this ill-defined and broad terminology and legislation could unintentionally criminalise many people and standard Christian practices like prayer, preaching and counsel.

Gordon Preece, Director of Ethos, has signed onto a letter to Premier Andrews from various church leaders, protesting the proposed Change or Suppression Practices (Conversion) Prohibition Bill 2020 to be debated in the Upper House of the Victorian Parliament on Tuesday 2nd February 2021.

Does the church have anything to offer in a time of crisis such as the pandemic? What do the major biblical themes of healing, reconciliation, community, care for the poor, the work of justice and prophetic witness mean for us and the world today?

A poem about the year that was.

This is a book you could comfortably give to your non-Christian friends and neighbours without appearing preachy. But it also presents a challenge for us as educated western Christians to develop a more robust and authentic faith that embraces the chaos, mess and uncertainty of our world.