nz
When God turned up at a gaming convention

When God turned up at a gaming convention

I pressed the record button and let out a sigh. It was a Friday night, only the fourth day into filming and my eyelids were already drooping from hours of travel, research and interview transcriptions. .

  • Discovering your true name

    We get told we're all unique, but I know of other Brads in the world quite like me. In terms of thought and creativity, aren't we just the sum total of everything and everyone that influences us?

  • I don't want to be a Jesus Freak

    I’m willing to bet good money on my ability to beat anyone else in a competition about Christian song lyrics. Seriously, you’d be dumb to take me on.

  • Dove's 'real beauty' fails to satisfy

    You may have seen the latest video from cosmetics company Dove doing the rounds online — a short 'experiment' seeking to change public perception of 'real beauty'.

  • Gandhi and social change

    Just the other day I visited my family and my father on father's day, and ended up along the way watching the biographical film 'Gandhi', made in 1982 and directed by Richard Attenborough.

  • More than lavender. More than hot milk and Bon Iver.

    Lavender has always been my creature comfort. Its oil is a nostalgic, fragrant sense of relief. I smell it and my neurotransmitters go to their happy place.

  • A new foreign policy

    Christians need a new foreign policy. Of course, it seems strange to talk about Christians having a 'foreign policy'. We're not a country, and if you're a Protestant, it's hard to even talk about a unified church.

  • What Karl Marx taught me about following Jesus

    My lecturer bounded into class, replete with a Sex-Pistols-esque mohawk encircled by a shaved-and-tattooed skull. This was not theology, nor was it public relations.

  • Faith in freedom

    It is for freedom that Christ has set us free! This verse serves as a declaration of the freedom that is ours because of what Christ accomplished: Christ has set us free!

  • I'm better than a four year old

    When walking home from university one day, I took a shortcut across a muddy field next to a bunch of netball courts.

  • Don't rock the boat

    I can guarantee you've heard the story before. It involves sub-zero waters, a sinking ship and a soul-crushing end to "one of the most beautiful romances of all time."

  • Thoughts on tradition and the monarchy

    The monarchy and royal family represent Anglo high culture: the best that has been produced aesthetically and politically by our society.