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Vampires for Jesus

Vampires for Jesus

At the end of last year, I was given a significant amount of book vouchers. For someone who often prefers to hang out with books rather than people, having this much to shamelessly spend on books was understandably a really exciting prospect. .

  • Unsettling change

    Change can be very unsettling. It interrupts the predictability and comfort of having things just the way we like them. But even for the most"I like it the way it has always been, thank you!" kind of people, we have to admit that there are some advantages to change. 

  • 2017 Formula 1 update

    It’s 2017 and no one has fixed the problems. If you take a closer look over the past two decades of Formula One Racing you can see that they have led this revolution.

  • Do monks have friends?

    I want to begin this post with a simple request. Close your eyes, and imagine a spiritual guru. What pictures came to mind? An old man with a beard? A Buddhist monk? A friar alone in their cave? Joel Osteen?

  • Stop picturing me naked

    I am a girl. Despite the insurance statement I received today that clearly states my gender as 'Male', that's my story and I'm sticking with it. I realise I am probably at the age where I should call myself a 'woman', but I'm just not sure yet.

  • Building bridges or walls?

    I’ve been watching the series A.D. on Netflix—a compelling dramatisation of the New Testament book of Acts showing the intrigue, the terror and the transformation surrounding the birth of the Christian Church.

  • Essay Question for Eng 102 (Writing Comp.) "Describe and explain your approach to one of the issues discussed in this course"

    I've been a student now for over five years. Without tooting my own horn too much, I'm pretty successful. If you measured success with cheeseburgers, I would be in orbit around the earth right now.

  • Facing our mortality

    It’s been said there’s nothing more certain in life than death and taxes. We have to face taxes—we pay GST when we buy something, we pay some form of income tax when we earn money—and so it goes on.

  • Love thy neighbour

    I am a privileged person, all you have to do is inspect the corners of my life to realise this is true. I have travelled to new and foreign lands to experiences that I am lucky to have encountered,

  • Don't read this if you can't handle mystery

    I flew into Anchorage at 1am. It was light. I had heard of the 'midnight sun' from friends before but wasn't quite ready for seeing it in person.

  • People of Faith: Col Stringer—Pastor Crocodile Dundee

    In many circles Col Stringer is well known through writing and preaching. His unique background of wildlife and humour at churches and conventions all over the world, won him the title, Pastor Crocodile Dundee.

  • Faith as virtue

    It's been a while since I wrote one of these 'faith-life' articles and life tends to shoehorn its way pressingly in between my abstract reflections on any particular topic.