As a young child in Wollongong, I learned a lot of hymns and songs at Sunday School, in church, and at home listening to Burl Ives LP records. Burl was a challenge to my tiny mind, since as well as revivalist hymns he also sang patriotic American songs, and colonial Australian songs such as …
God and the winds of change
Each of us has our own unique experience of 2020, the year that brought us a disruptive pandemic, and our own perspective on what it all means. But one thing we all share in common: we have all felt the winds of change, and those winds are with us now. We call it “the new …
Then I saw a Lamb
In chapters four and five of the Book of Revelation, the Apostle John records an unfolding vision of life as it is in heaven. There is a magnificent throne on which Almighty God is seated, surrounded by 24 lesser thrones occupied by 24 elders, and four mysterious “living creatures,” ceaselessly rendering praise and thanksgiving to …
The end of union with Christ
We live in the era of the religious supermarket. Almost without exception, people claim to have a sense of spiritual identity, a need to embrace more than this external, material world. And the shelves of the religious supermarket groan under the weight of the exciting, intriguing, enlightening products and services on offer, for a price. …
The very hungry mediator
When did you last feel hungry? What you felt, medically speaking, was the effect of your gastrointestinal tract slowly emptying as sphincter muscles push food through the stomach and the small and large intestine. It’s called the migrating motor complex, triggered by release of a hormone called motilin. Next time your tummy interrupts an important …
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