LEWIS JONES* finds that Gordon Menzies’ book, Western Fundamentalism, takes us on a journey worth taking Menzies, G., 2020. Western Fundamentalism: Democracy, Sex and the Liberation of Mankind. Sydney: Gordon Menzies. Available at Reformers Bookshop and...
SANDY MCMILLAN* laments our loss of the ability to lament. In the very early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sydney, when the main talking point was panic buying, I was in the empty toilet roll aisle of the local supermarket, when I heard a woman asking a shelf...
LEWIS JONES* considers whether aspects of our socio-cultural formation play a part in the psychological impact of this ongoing Covid crisis. About two weeks into our COVID-19 timeline in Australia, typically taken as time since the 100th confirmed case,...
In the first part of a new series on the impact of Covid-19 and variants, NALINI PATHER* says we must prepare for a long journey – and we should lean on our Gospel hope The third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic due to the Delta variant of the virus is sweeping...
In the first of two blogs, LEWIS JONES* looks at how Covid has distorted our sense of time and space – but he offers a path to recovery. At 7:07pm on the 26th of June 2021, it seemed like a good thing that you had booked a rental cabin where you were going to...
In the second in a series, LEWIS JONES* says that Covid tempts us to turn inward and look after ourselves in the face of uncertainty. But God tells us to look to Him. The ongoing Covid crisis has made the present so different from the past – even the recent past...
