Elly sent me this video today of a woman tumbling 300 metres down a snowy mountain and (spoiler alert) ending up with no more damage than a sprained finger. By comparison, I fell an innocuous metre and broke my neck.…
Elly sent me this video today of a woman tumbling 300 metres down a snowy mountain and (spoiler alert) ending up with no more damage than a sprained finger. By comparison, I fell an innocuous metre and broke my neck.…
It’s World Mental Health Day on Saturday, a day intended to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness by providing mental health education, awareness, and advocacy. I thought I might contribute to those goals by highlighting the destructive attitudes to…
60 minutes report: http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/curtis-landers/xwf16yz?from I hate watching television reports on spinal cord injury, which normally to follow a predictable two-part pattern. Part one provides pictures of neck braces, helicopters, ventilation machines, and shocked families, all of which is a visceral reminder…
On Thursday and Friday of last week I was invited to speak in Melbourne at the CBM/Luke 14 conference, Honest Conversations: Disability and Authentic Christian Community. Its highlights were too numerous to mention, so let me instead tell the story of…
My latest journal article, “The Dark Side of Prayer for Healing:,” Pneuma 36, no. 2 (January 1, 2014): 204–25, has just been published by Brill. if I can be forgiven a boast, I received the following response to the paper: I…
For those of you silly enough to want to listen to my recent Alphacrucis chapel sermon (presumably you have absolutely nothing else worthwhile to do with your time), it can be found by clicking the (blue steel) photo or at…
Last week I wrote a blog entry describing problems with my bowel and “small moments of grace.” As I reread that blog from a different vantage point today, it really does seem like the author is a super spiritual sanctimonious…
Life is all a matter of perspective. Let me tell you the same story in two ways – don’t worry, I will keep it short. On Thursday I had a class to teach in the afternoon at Hillsong in Baulkham…
As I noted in my previous post, Andrew’s active faith is a challenge to us all. He sent me this very thoughtful reply that is well worth sharing with you all: Hey Shane, thanks for writing this and I appreciate…
A former student of mine, Andrew Paine, has been blogging about his recent experiences protesting against the Australian military in North Queensland: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150241367623853 http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150260957633853 Andrew has become what might be labelled a radical disciple of Jesus. Describing his faith he…