Christmas can be a time when people think about spirituality more often than usual, which I think is great. However, recently I was wandering through my local Dymocks bookstore and paused to have a look at the ‘spiritual’ section. The Bible featured prominently on the top shelf with a few different versions, along with some …
A few weeks ago at church, we had an ‘invite your friends’ week. Rightly or wrongly, I consciously didn’t invite anyone and for a particular reason. I thought of my atheistic alter-ego, HNAC Alison. There is no way she would be coming to church at 10am on a Sunday. Don’t bother to invite her because …
Hello 2022, how are you? Well, time will tell on that one. My apologies for beginning the year of blog posts with such unfashionable rhyming. As usual at this time of year, I run through the books I've read (or finished) in the past twelve months. Unusually, however, I actually cracked my #yearlyreadinggoal and read …
I find it challenging to think about how I would consider Christmas if I was hypothetically-not-a-Christian (usually referred to as HNAC Alison). Christmas in Australian is pervasive, regardless of whether it's incarnation is in any way biblical or not. For this reason, it's difficult to put myself in the atheist's shoes at this time of …