Steve Boxwell
Elections and princes
Elections and princes
Steve Boxwell
The spy at the table

So how about the head of ASIO saying that one of our former politicians was a foreign government asset? It was one of those announcements, in an otherwise routine speech that landed like a dead possum onto a picnic table – it had to be disposed of, but even when it’s gone its presence at all still puts you off your meal.

The spy at the table
Steve Boxwell
The Helmet that saved Renew

This week I attended the funeral of Joe Mullins. Joe died old and full of years (103 of them). He and his wife Edith (who died in 2009) had six children, and what seems to me like a bajillion grand-children and great grand-children.

The Helmet that saved Renew
Steve Boxwell
Three Post-Referendum Thoughts

1. I’m struck as I read the New Testament just how much of it is concerned with finding unity across distance.

Be it cultural distance (Jewish and non-Jewish Christians); confidence to live as a distinctive Christian minority who, nevertheless, are intelligible to the cultures around them (the so-called “stronger” and “weaker” Christians); and, of course, the mountains of passages about how to handle conflict, disagreement and sin.
 
A surprising thought rings out through these texts – unity within the body of Christ is deeply precious, it is worth contending for and is more important than being right. This thought is easier or harder to believe based on what’s going on around us.

Three Post-Referendum Thoughts
Steve Boxwell
Across the details

If you are ever inclined to wonder if God has forgotten you, that you are unimportant to him, that his saving work at Easter doesn’t cover you – then know that all he has to do is look down at his nail marked palm and see your name.

Across the details

Sacred.

Sacred.

As I’ve watched coverage and read things about the nonsense that happened at the US Capitol yesterday, I started to notice something surprising. The journalists, pundits and politicians seemed to reach for religious language to describe how they felt about what had happened.

Covid-19 and Martin Luther

Covid-19 and Martin Luther

Every now and again a crisis hits us that forces us to ask, “do I really believe the gospel and, if so, what does it mean for how I live?” As I’ve talked with my friends across South-East Asia over the last couple of weeks it’s hard not to see the Corona virus as one of those. I want to offer some 500-year-old wisdom for how to get through the next few weeks.  

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