The first time I saw The Passion of the Christ I was in an empty screening room. I happened to visit my local cinema when it wasn’t very busy and as a result, I was the only person in the screening room. I vaguely remember the debates when the film first came out. Some said it was antisemitic and others insisted that it wasn’t. At the time I found the idea that the film being antisemitic rather bizarre. For me, the film was dramatizing a historical event and to say it was…

I had heard a lot about Mark Driscoll but had never heard him preach. It wasn’t until my old boss brought over his book Religious Saves + Nine Other Misconceptions from a business trip in the US that I began to read and listen to him. What would happen in my old workplace was that my boss would be given books by publishers and he would take them back for his staff to have. None of my work colleagues was interested in the book so I took it home. I don’t remember reading much of it but soon after taking the book home I began listening to his podcast.

Around 2005 I had heard a bit about Facebook but hadn’t joined. I was a MySpace guy back in the day and felt no need to sign up for it. I only decided to join when a friend who was on it and wasn’t on MySpace encouraged me open up…

A feeling of irritation and fear came over me. I thought it was ridiculous but there was this worry that it might be true. The message was very clear, something bad was going to happen later on in the year and we needed to be ready. This wasn’t the first time we were warned about something happening. For the last few years, the Pastor would remind us of Revelation 6:6 almost in every service…

‘Does something like this cause you to question God?’ he asked me. I was at work on a lunch and speaking to a work colleague a few weeks after my brother had died. I responded by saying my saying it didn’t and that was the truth. Back then my response…

I think it’s fair to say when many think of God we tend to think of it as a man with human emotions. Reza Aslan calls this sort of thinking ‘humanized God’ in his book God: A Human History of Religion. We give God traits like loving, kind, compassionate, merciful…

He was told to approach the subject of abortion careful since a number of women in the congregation had had one but the Pastor didn’t. As far as he was concerned he was there to proclaim God’s truth and it didn’t matter what anyone else had been through or how…

There were countless opinions being thrown around the room. The subject was the Apostle Paul’s teaching on women, the event a Friday night Bible study. There were some who were in agreement that women should be silent in the church and others were conflicted because it seemed like the Bible…

‘Really Santa is like God. He’s omnipresent, he has a list of good people and he rewards the good people. He’s an idol and Christians should avoid him’. She told me. You be around Christians long enough and you’ll see that some hate Santa and consider him to be evil. …