Posts from September 2013

Posts from September 2013

Atheists and Agnostics and the Pope

Recently Pope Francis was widely reported as having sought to build bridges to atheists and agnostics.  What particularly took the media spotlight was a statement in which he is reported to have said that what matters most is obeying one’s conscience. Apparently he was responding to a series of questions in an Italian newspaper editorial.  He wrote, “You ask me if the God of the Christians forgives those who don’t believe and who don’t seek the faith.  I start by…

Godly Character

“Your character is what God knows you to be; your reputation is what people think of you.”  I came across that saying this past week while preparing for devotions with the teachers at Glenvale Christian School on Thursday morning.  It would be wonderful if our character was the same as our reputation. Last week I lamented the fact that it is increasingly argued that what people do in private is their business as long as it doesn’t affect their public…

Doing your democratic duty

It’s not for me to tell you how to vote this coming Saturday but I do want to remind you to think Christianly about your vote.  So to stimulate your thinking let me share three particular ‘gripes’. Gripe number one is that politics in Australia in the last few decades has been less and less about parties and policies and more and more about people and personalities.  A stranger from another country could be forgiven for thinking that the whole…