Quote: Prayer is not a pokie machine
The reason that prayer doesn’t always get answered, or that we have a hard time even finding a mechanistic way of treating prayer, is because prayer is not a machine.
CS Lewis, CS Lewis, Mere Christianity
Absolute Legend = LightFM + Luke Holt
Breakfast radio host, Luke Holt, from Melbourne’s Christian radio station 89.9 LightFM, has been set a supreme goal: to achieve the title of Absolute Legend by ranking as Google’s number one search result for the very same search term – by week ending Friday 3 April 2009.
Speaking on this morning’s Morning Wake Up breakfast
show, Luke was full of promise and dismay: over the
weekend, since being handed the challenge, Luke had managed to
secure a top 3 ranking for the term ‘absolute legend’. Not bad
- I’d class that as legendary. Yet when he was gleefully going
to display this positive result to his co-host, Lucy Holmes, who issued Luke the challenge, he was… Continue reading ...
Pope disses condoms as saviour from HIV / AIDS
A day before starting his tour of AIDS-ravaged Africa, Pope Benedict made a remark that, it would seem, was too remarkable for a whole host of sexual health organisations, AIDS activists and family planning groups.
“[AIDS] cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms,” the Pope was quoted as saying. “On the contrary, they increase the problem.” The Pope then stated that the way to reduce the AIDS issue in Africa is to promote monogamy as well as observance of the Church’s teaching on moral behaviour.
Personally, of course, I don’t have much of an issue with what the Pope said and believe there is merit behind his intent. A shame his comments weren’t received in the same light by the media, however, as article after article painted… Continue reading ...
Female student allowed to wear tux to prom because … she’s not female?
A quick thought in response to onenewsnow.com’s story, School caves to tuxedo-clad lesbian, that reports of an Indiana school being forced to allow an exception to their prom dress code for a lesbian student who wanted to wear a tux:
The school’s request for the female student to dress in a dress had everything to do with the fact that she is biologically female – it had nothing to do with her sexuality, but her sex. Unless groups like ACLU and other pro-homosexual lobbyists can prove that the student in question is actually male, I remain constantly amazed that such strong-arm tactics are so effectively used in situations like these and that they feel they are justified in employing the same.
Based on this, we should now… Continue reading ...
The three ‘R’s: reincarnation / recycling / ridiculousness
Last week I was taken aback by a curious question that a colleague had raised at the office. I was taken aback mainly because the workplace is typically the last place where people feel comfortable enough to openly ask such questions. Sure, you might have the odd comment dropped here or there and then conversation moves on and you think no more of it. But this colleague of mine was asking quite specifically and quite directly, which I guess is what really piqued my interest. Oh, that and the fact that the topic being questioned was about the afterlife and reincarnation. (Ok – this last part is really all that’s needed to grab my interest, I’ll admit it.)
She asked: “Do you believe in an afterlife?”
I replied… Continue reading ...
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