The American Bible Society has just released some fascinating research on forgiveness in their State of the Bible 2026 Report. They divided American Christians into three groups: “nominal”, “casual” and “practising”. By this they mean nominals are people who call themselves Christian but are a bit like Rabbitoh’s fans who wear the top but never show up to a game, casuals are people who attend church at least monthly but don’t strongly agree that faith is important in their life, with practicing being people who attend church at least monthly, adhere to a biblical tradition and strongly agree that faith is important to their life. While I’d quibble with the categories (and the spelling of practicing) the results are intriguing.

Evil is not a substance located exclusively in other people. There are evil acts. There are people who must be stopped. Governments really do have a responsibility to protect the innocent and punish wrongdoing. But Christianity will not allow us the slapdash luxury of dividing humanity into the goodies and the baddies.

If you're sitting around your backyard fire pit, enjoying a winter evening with friends, you might want to throw a couple of sausages on the grill. Not because you're hungry. Because apparently it can help demonstrate that you're cooking. Folks around Canberra are being issued with environmental notices because, it turns out, a backyard fire is technically illegal under section 9 of the Environment Protection Regulation 2005.

The ACT Government has, recently, introduced laws to criminalise patterns of coercive control in relationships, to bring Canberra in line with other states.

This is a good step. Abuse within relationships is not always loud, sometimes it comes with a thousand tiny constrictions that amount to treating another person like a bonsai tree. If you’ve ever seen those kinds of patterns in operation, it’s awful – the isolation and surveillance, love-bombing paired with a loss of autonomy.

This week in Las Vegas, there was an international sporting event with a twist – athletes were encouraged to use FDA-approved performance-enhancing drugs. The competitors look incredible (which, I guess, they are). The event, it is claimed, is ultimately less about the sports – it’s about showcasing an upgraded humanity. Not merely athletes enhanced, but humanity enhanced.