Category: That Poster (Outreach Media)

The headline didn’t shout. It didn’t need to. This wasn’t a slow news day. It read, ‘In one week 10 percent of Australia’s workforce have lost their jobs’. In India, a nation of 1.3 billion people was given four hours notice to lock down inside their homes for 21 days. People found outside afterwards were…

It seems cold and unfeeling to think about good things in the midst of all the pain the bushfires have brought – especially when it’s fresh and even still happening. But part of dealing with the hurt and finding meaning in despair is finding the good. So, while the bushfires have burned the media have…

Racing car drivers and procrastinators want the same drug. It comes from that contradictory cocktail of excitement and terror. While drivers push the limits of physical ability, procrastinators push the limits of time. As fear of the impending deadline looms, finally adrenaline seeps sweetly into their system. Let me illustrate. The greatest rush in the…

So keen was Nicodemus to meet Jesus that he was willing to risk being seen. But he had reason to be afraid. The religious sect known as Pharisees that he belonged to were committed to killing Jesus. Such was their intense jealousy over Jesus’s popularity. It was almost certainly for this reason that Nicodemus came…

The Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland has 37,000 gigantic, geometrically perfect polygon columns. Have you been there? They’re extraordinary. But back before photographs, television and the Internet, it was hard to imagine and believe in far off places. “You’re exaggerating! Surely those columns were made from concrete moulds.”  Or, “You’re making it all up. They…

The media in Australia and other community gatekeepers treat abortion as a settled question. As a consequence, that’s how most Australians view the issue. We’re encouraged to think that, in the past, an important victory was won for women. And now, instead of being bullied to bear and care for children they never wanted, women…

There are so many wonderful things in life. The joy of love, family, satisfaction in hard work, the prospect of a new adventure, admiring the awesome beauty of nature. It is truly a remarkable world. Yet in all of these things, there’s always a blemish. And the blemish lies in us and in each thing…

Why do we sin? Because it’s a chore – of course not! Actually, we do the wrong thing because it’s fun, satisfying or seems too difficult to resist. Why would we bother if it weren’t any of those things? Lowering the car window and letting rip at the gormless person blocking our way… how good…

Reflect: There’s a man in an Australian country town with a history of shady business practices and fraudulent dealings. He also happens to be a regular church-goer. Many people where he lives know the man to be shonky and would say they’ve been ‘ripped off’ as would people in other parts of Australia. What’s terrible…

If we took a closer look at Easter, what would we find – a chocolate fantasy or important history? In the 8th Century, the English monk, Bede, spoke of how the name of the pagan goddess ‘Eostre’ was used for the ‘Easter month’. Bede’s words have long been seen as proof that Christians simply replaced…