Prospect 2021

What’s the point? That’s the question I asked myself while I was vacuuming the lounge room just as a horde of people arrived to trample dirt into the carpet. What’s the point of carefully wrapping up Christmas presents, with fine detail and ribbon, just for them to get ripped to pieces? We all ask ‘what…

We’ve made it out of 2021. We’re in the first week of 2022 (at time of writing). It’s natural, in these transition moments, to look ahead. I can think of plans I want to accomplish this year. There are places I would like to visit, perhaps even on an aeroplane. There are people I’d like…

When I was in school. There was the lunch phenomenon of the sports game. And not having fixed teams, it was always the case that you had to get into teams before you started the game. Sometimes the teams were pretty fair and evenly matched. At other times, it would be entirely stacked with the…

Evil spirits? It’s amazing how the Bible speaks so openly about the reality of the unseen realm. The idea of the existence of spiritual beings, angels or demons, for some people belongs to the same category as unicorns, and imaginary friends. That is, for many people, they are myths. For me, growing up here in…

We’re a Presbyterian church. Yet, for obvious reasons, when I talk about being a presbyterian it doesn’t mean a whole lot of anything to most people. However, being presbyterian really does shape a lot of who we are and what we do (even if you’d never see me dead in a kilt). It means we…