The Netflix show 13 Reasons Why has created quite a stir recently. It opens up important issues, both negative and positive, for us all. ‘Everything really does affect everything.’ 13 Reasons Why explores the aftermath of a teenage girl’s suicide. She records 13 audiotapes, each about a person and their contribution to her suicide. It…
Last month I was in car accident. I’d like to say I took it in my stride. That I ran straight to all my mates, hands raised in praises and hallelujahs. Realistically, I sat in the ambulance sobbing—and I spent the next few days staring into space and moving from bed to chair to couch…
Fasting is, by far, the least-appreciated and least-practiced spiritual discipline. There is a curious apathy about a discipline Jesus assumed His followers would practice. After all, just as He gave instruction on prayer prefaced by the words “And when [not if] you pray…,” He gave instruction on fasting prefaced by “And when you fast…” Both…
Josh Hawkins reflects on going viral with his YouTube channel, hijosh, as a result of Throwing Stuff into Stuff and teaching the world How to Speak Australian. I’ve been putting out videos for almost ten years. Every now and then I’d put out something and I’d be like, ‘You know, this has the potential to…
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