‘Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings.’ ~ Hebrews 13:9 This is part 2 of a multipart series exploring the ideas around the secular ideology of Critical Theory in the book ‘Cynical Theories: How Universities Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity ...read more
You see it in the growing phenomenon of ‘cancel culture’, where people are ‘cancelled’ for saying things that were once considered common sense. It manifests itself in the school classrooms, when kids are taught that gender is ‘fluid’. It drives the defacing and tearing down ...read more
Religion and sex don’t mix. At least, that’s the narrative of the sexual revolution: religion is prudish, even oppressive, and ruins the sex lives of religious people. But I came across some recent (2019) research that challenges this narrative. In fact, it flips this narrative ...read more
2020 has shown us how precarious our world can be. From a pandemic that’s shut down the planet, to an America that’s polarised like it’s 1968; from economic carnage in our own country, to a belligerent and totalitarian China. We’re living in turbulent times. American ...read more
In December 2018, Melbourne Pastor Murray Campbell and his family visited the blood-soaked WW1 battlefields of Western Europe. They were on a pilgrimage of sorts, to see where Campbell’s great grandfather, William Campbell, fought for King and Country as an ANZAC soldier. Their pilgrimage took ...read more
The legendary US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away on the 18th of September. This has opened a vacancy on the Supreme Court, and so President Trump nominated a US Federal Judge, Amy Coney Barrett, to fill the empty chair. While Ginsburg was ...read more
President Donald Trump is, how shall we say, controversial. As theologian Wayne Grudem puts it: "[Trump] is egotistical, bombastic, and brash. He often lacks nuance in his statements. Sometimes he blurts out mistaken ideas … that he later must abandon. He insults people. He can ...read more
Our society is increasingly polarised. We’re less likely to hold favourable opinions of those who disagree with our political views. We’re less likely to develop deep friendships with people who vote the other way. Instead, we’re more likely to avoid people with political differences. We’re ...read more
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. A ...read more
I grew up with a victim mentality. Nobody called it that at the time. But as I look back, that’s what it was. You see, I was a refugee from communist Eastern Europe -- from Hungary. I grew up among other refugees, among victims. Victims ...read more