Anglican minister & ethicist. 📚 @tandtclark 2020. 🎙 @churchpodmatics. Inventor of a good joke about Oliver O’Donovan and Stanley Hauerwas going duck shooting.
Sydney, Australia
Joined February 2012
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Occasionally updated pin of some published work:
'On God's Practical Knowledge of Creation' – onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Every Good Path (Book) – bloomsbury.com/au/every-good…
'On being rightly identified' – abc.net.au/religion/on-being…
Tim Winton and St Augustine – abc.net.au/religion/tim-wint…
I'm a decade late to this book, which, given the subject, matters a lot, but it was still magnificent. A beauitful piece of writing, and penetrating insight into our situation. Highly recommended.
I preached this sermon in the week before the terrible events at Bondi. Though it feels a little odd to see it now on this side, the message is the same. Merry Christmas.
Https://www.abc.net.au/relig…
I have an article 'On Speaking Freely' in the new @BetweenTimesX journal. Hope you like it!
between-times.co.uk/seculari…
Nice to see this come out! An attempt to think theologically about what freedom of speech actually is.
‘It is one thing to have the right to say something; it is another to be able to tell the truth. Our cultures are beset by a loss of confidence in speech.’ @ErringtonA
From his new essay on why ‘freedom of speech’ is more than a formal right.
between-times.co.uk/seculari…
'When the state becomes extremist, a display of normal life becomes a criminal offence.' – If you can get access, don't miss this incredible podcast from @TheEconomist Weekend Intelligence, on the show trial of Yevgenia Berkovich. economist.com/audio/podcasts…
It would be a great tragedy if the death of an honourable man came to be remembered as the opportunity that was needed to usher in full-blown authoritarianism.
'There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies'. —Walter Lippmann
I don't know if anyone else has read the Foreword of Neil Postman's 1985 masterpiece, Amusing Ourselves to Death but 👀
Following the weekend, I thought I'd repost two things I have written on multiculturalism and Australian identity. The second is paywalled, and has a lot of O'Donovan, but I can send it to you if you want it.
abc.net.au/.../tim-winton,-s…
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
'Verstehen können wir den Menschen nur, wenn der von Gottes Atem belebte Leib als Gottes Gabe angenommen wird'. — Christoph Raedel
This interview by @DouthatNYT is so interesting. So interesting to see how the prominence of one moral question – should a parent seek to avoid so and so conditions if they can – drowns out everything else. nytimes.com/2025/08/07/opini…
Although there is some slightly irritating back and forth, it's well worth it for the last five minutes.
This week's episode of Interesting Times is a conversation about the UFO phenomenon (whatever it may be) with Diana Walsh Pasulka:
youtube.com/watch?v=D7n4nctI…
My sixth sermon on Psalm 119, for anyone interested. The sixth stanza led to a reflection on the nature of Christian confidence in the future.
neac.sermon.net/main/main/22…
