Category Archives: Current affairs

Christmas presents, Christmas debt

I might be the grinch that is just about to steal Christmas… but, I don’t get the whole Christmas present thing. While we’re struggling to manage rising costs, trying to scrape together money for debt repayments and saving for time off with family, Christmas is here and suddenly there is the tradition where we buy presents for everyone?

Is homosexuality a sin?

Posted by Tim Malone on Sunday 28th November, 2010 10 comments

I got an e-mail recently from someone, asking this simple question: do you believe homosexuality is a sin? This post is my response.

Searching for redemption in the Christian campsite case

Posted by Tim Malone on Tuesday 12th October, 2010 26 comments

Late last week, Christian Youth Camps was ordered by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal to pay $5,000 to gay youth support group WayOut – for refusing to accommodate them at its Phillip Island Adventure Resort, which the Christian Brethren …

I can hardly believe it

Posted by Tim Malone on Thursday 24th June, 2010 7 comments

What a day. “Momentous” is the word people are using to describe it, which is apt given it means ‘significant’ and ‘important’. The holder of the highest office in our land (at least, that with any real power) changed – …

My experience on the mountain

Posted by Tim Malone on Sunday 18th October, 2009 10 comments

Yesterday I went up Mt Ainslie to see the result of Danny Nalliah’s call to an “offensive spiritual warfare attack” against the witches who are having an influence over federal parliament. It was an interesting experience, and a confronting one …