Are your kids sipping the ‘secular cool-aid’?
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- Created: Tuesday, 12 October 2021 11:38
Been a while since I posted here, but I wanted to update you all, so that if any of you are wondering where I’ve gone, you can get the lowdown right here. But first to what got me inspired enough to post again in the first place...
Sexuality and gender
Sexuality and gender are hot topics and it’s becoming increasingly unpopular to hold traditional, Biblical values around them.
We recently attended an online presentation through our church by an author who was discussing their PhD with young adults at church. What became clear is how challenging it is to not simply to adopt the culture of our day, yet still love those we disagree with and accept we may be ridiculed and even hated for not reflecting society.
Art Dealing with Past Pandemics
In the weekend paper (yes they still exist), I read an article about a much broader topic, discussing Visual Art by John McDonald, on the happy subject of how people have dealt with widespread death during pandemics (SMH, Spectrum, October 9-10, 2021). In ‘Mortal Masquerade’ he traces how in past pandemics of the middle ages and beyond, art has confronted death and literally depicted humanity as having a ‘danced with death’. Clergy preached judgement and called for repentance. Artists painted skeletons dancing joyfully while the living looked on unwittingly or mournfully. It’s grim but playful, poetic and poignant, powerful and prophetic.
But then John turns to the current pandemic, with Covid 19 noting how there are still depictions of skeletons but no dancing, and here’s his interpretation of why:
Would you like entertaining, in depth-Biblical shows performed LIVE for your kids in your home to grow their faith?
Took my kids to see the “Soul Surfer Sequel” the other week. Well, actually, my wife did and I tagged along thinking, ‘it’s good to support these things and my girls really liked Soul Surfer’, so here we are in a cinema with friends from church watching a limited release screening.
It’s easy to fall prey to fear and take flight, cocooning ourselves in mountains of toilet paper, if we have them, in response to the threat of the coronavirus.
Panic buying has emptied the shelves of Sydney supermarkets and the crazy thing is, instead of non -perishable food disappearing from the shelves, its no…toilet paper.
