Category Archives: hard bits

love is … a room full of razor blades

If you’re wondering how that could possibly be both true and a good thing, think of Eustace Scrubb in Lewis’ “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” love is loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong suffering. love is not nice pictures of sunsets and flowers. pretending that everything is OK is not love. pretending to love is not love. saying that [...]

 

home-grown terrorist threat revealed

According to ABC online "John Howard says he has intelligence now he did not have at the weekend". Taking his statement at face value I’m sure most Australians would want to congratulate our Prime Minister. Many of us have noticed over the last few years how very distressing it is to watch an important world [...]

and now for something completely different

I saw a quote from Bono the other day and it set me thinking. The quote – which was linked to an article about forgivness of third world debt – read in part What’s up on trial here is Christianity itself. … The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free [...]