Last night our much-loved Hungry Beast ran a story on ‘gay conversion’, along with a live forum. Gay conversion, also known as reorientation or ex-gay ministry, is the Christian idea that people with unwanted same-sex attraction can become ‘straight’. Here are a few thoughts from my Christian point of view.
Christians and self-esteem has come up in conversation and on the blogosphere a few times for me recently and the resounding message that I hear reformed Christians giving is that self-esteem ought not to be based on ourselves but on looking to God. In his institutes, Calvin notes how we […]
Whenever I’ve said to a married woman that I’ve been reading a book about a woman who, for her husband’s 40th birthday, gives him sex every day for a year, almost every one has said, “Don’t tell my husband about that!” Most say it lightheartedly, others with a degree of […]
It’s a modern Australian atrocity. These four men are the ones whose relentless bullying prompted the suicide of Brodie Pamlock. Melinda Tankard Reist has been covering it (here, here, here) and there’s also this Facebook group. Actually, when I look at these men, it’s like looking in a mirror. I […]
In Galatians 6:10, we’re urged to do good to all people, but especially to our family of believers. If you’re concerned about the earthquake disaster in Haiti, you ought to know a bit about the church in Haiti — who are these brothers and sisters, and what are their needs? […]
In our exploration of the doctrine of Scripture, I’ve looked at James Dunn’s ‘The Living Word’ here, here and here. This post is just a quick review to wrap up this section.
One of the things we’ve been struck by since moving to Melbourne is the distinctives of our home town, Adelaide. Lots of people know Adelaide as the City of Churches. It’s not that Adelaide had an especially high number of church buildings, but Adelaide was the first place in Australia […]
Meet Jesus at uni 