David Robertson discusses faith, culture and politics from a Christian perspective
Episodes
Friday Sep 20, 2019
Friday Sep 20, 2019
Israeli Elections - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-49740981
Quantas CEO – Alan Joyce –
Richard Dawkins - Outgrowing God….
Government appoints new PM envoy for freedom of religion
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-appoints-new-pm-envoy-for-freedom-of-religion-belief
The EU Empire
https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1172940132455976961?s=12
Confessions of a Social Constructionist – https://quillette.com/2019/09/17/i-basically-just-made-it-up-confessions-of-a-social-constructionist/
Pride at the Proms….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49704831
Hong Kong Anthem - Music can be so powerful….https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-china-49688548/glory-to-hong-kong-singing-a-new-protest-anthem
Extinction Rebellion - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MkYgu-zMrUiiWHSU4rzkWZRicPdC2hpK/view
Praying to Plants
https://murraycampbell.net/2019/09/19/we-harvest-what-we-sow/
New Irish Arts – And Can it Be –
https://www.facebook.com/newirisharts/videos/vb.69385654537/441307693397371/?type=2&theater
Quote of the week:
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.
Calvin - Introduction, Geneva Psalter 1539.
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Friday Sep 13, 2019
1) Mugabe – Can we being with this…just the opening minute?
2) Northern Ireland Abortion – https://www.spuc.org.uk/latest-news/latest-news/stella-creasy-do-not-consult-people-of-northern-ireland-on-abortion-legislation?fbclid=IwAR37zO4K1uKGHzdOmJWvSnON2zeAPsrX-3L73mzZizu6eCtPPXgN4G_IicQ
3) Lisa Cameron - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ecfa5038-d416-11e9-aa6d-16cb9f989e55
4) Brexit –
Bercow - https://twitter.com/labourleave/status/1171097886811181056?s=20
5) Margarett Attwood –
6) Finnish Politician - https://www.foxnews.com/world/bible-verse-lgbt-hate-crime-investigation
7) Gender neutral penguin - https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/chick-adopted-by-same-sex-penguin-couple-to-be-raised-as-gender-neutral-1-5001474
8) BBC – 100 genders –
https://stephenmcalpine.com/the-bbc-100-genders-92-league-teams/
9) School Girls protest - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtwYs6e-bNk
10) BBC – Fireman Sam – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDtlJU8e8v8
11) Melanie Phillips - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/428a40c2-d33a-11e9-9149-9833d870d22d
12) Jarrid Wilson -
The clip where he apologises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuTuGS3hXtM
Friday Sep 06, 2019
Friday Sep 06, 2019
Shetland – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-49502204
PolicePersons in Scotland - https://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-police-will-wear-gender-neutral-baseball-caps-as-part-of-their-uniform-1-4995168
Brexit - https://twitter.com/katehoeymp/status/1168155141012434946?s=12
Philip Lee - https://order-order.com/2019/09/03/chair-lgbt-lib-dems-quits-party-philip-lee/
Australian Anglican vicars ‘marry’ - https://www.facebook.com/Prime7NewsBorder/videos/vb.136887483071463/396111501089069/?type=2&theater
End of Gay Gene theory - https://www.bioedge.org/
Chick-Fil –A banned - https://www.foxnews.com/us/chick-fil-a-kansas-university-campus
Female students given lower standards - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/29/university-makes-10-point-entry-score-adjustment-for-female-applicants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7THJ-fCqzo
Ricky Gervais - https://twitter.com/jamesmelville/status/1167716812856971264?s=12
Stormzy and Ed Sheeran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFTSK6CnECk&feature=youtu.be
Quote of the Week: "A Christian should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel. His conversation should be such that all who are about him should clearly perceive whose he is, and whom he serves; and should see the image of Jesus reflected in his daily actions." CH Spurgeon.
Friday Aug 30, 2019
Friday Aug 30, 2019
1) The UK – Proroging of parliament….https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-49505257/parliament-suspension-protests-in-uk-cities
2) Criticism of migration… - https://twitter.com/DevenneySDP/status/1166075587951243264?s=20
3) The Cricket – Ricky Ponting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4AgYG_GRr0&t=79s
4) Sogyal Lakar - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49505098
5) The Environment - Copper Mining in Norway - The World Tonight – Friday.
The Australian – Electronic cars in NSW have a bigger carbon footprint…remember the diesel scandal.
Amazon forest fires -
6) Slave reparations -
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/23/glasgow-university-slave-trade-reparations
7) World News - Purdue Pharma, the opioid maker, and members of the billionaire Sackler family that own the company have offered to settle thousands of lawsuits against the company for $10bn to $12bn, according to people briefed on the offer.
8) Piers Morgan -
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HlDct_2wJXI?&start=2549&end=2696&rel=0&autoplay=1
9) Transgender Agenda - Kansas Library - https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/kansas-library-board-divided-over-banning-pedophiles-from-reading-to-kids/
Nicholas Gareth Morgan – Rugby - https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/49298550
10) Welsh Pride -
11) Aneurin Bevin –
12) Claire Smith – the dance -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=218&v=IGXgk0eYRZI
Quote of the Week:
Isaiah 40:31 but those who hope in the Lord shall renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint” Inscribed on Marnus Labuschagne’s bat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZo6_rgklxc&feature=youtu.be
May the Peoples praise….
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
1) John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma1y8pN9ryA
2) ABC and Abortion….
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/bbc-reporter-stunned-as-top-us-abortionist-admits-he-kills-babies
3) Students going to Uni - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/property-and-architecture/goes-inside-londons-super-swanky-37000-a-year-university-halls/
7 of Australias main universitites are responsible for foreign students –https://www.sbs.com.au/news/over-reliance-on-chinese-students-putting-australian-universities-at-risk-report-warns
4) The Vegan Islamaphobe…. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/17/gcse-student-disqualified-zealous-examiner-mistook-vegetarianism/
5) Greta’s Song - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/in-praise-of-the-bands-that-said-no-to-greta-thunberg/ the 1975 – the first 90 secs to human beings have not failed…
6) World News –
Papua New Guinea – over 500,000 civilians have been killed by Indonesias military….
Chinese Catholics - https://christianpost.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9ea99443ca7a7b6c9c7b37948&id=848d3d34d4&e=38b40306c7
5) PragerU Ten Commandments videos – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKsvLpJxVTA
6) The Christian Chess Champion - https://world.wng.org/2019/08/life_after_chess?fbclid=IwAR034tTnnLP3VUUEqjKf-9HPQtoKYlKJjjSnICy0tzBhQRlKotS1kMu5k6g
My goal is to try to realize my maximum potential, my God-given talent, which is chess.’ —Aleksandr Lenderma
7) Same Sex Songs of Praise - https://www.premier.org.uk/News/UK/Songs-of-Praise-features-same-sex-wedding
8) Yazidis in Wogga Wogga –https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007kvl
9) Stephen Colbert – Anderson Cooper - https://twitter.com/johnpauldickson/status/1162675656129306625?s=12
Quote of the day - ‘Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews... Jewish people in Israel love him like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God.”’
Saturday Aug 17, 2019
Saturday Aug 17, 2019
- Jeffrey Epstein -
2) Hong Kong -
3) Amazon Propaganda - https://news.yahoo.com/amazon-taxes-zero-180337770.html?fbclid=IwAR3zTvuxq7voeIivAC9kLsDssEeWEWjgGG0J6VAomWHKgU-Dsn-3AjOzwmM
4) Transgender Propaganda -
5) Adverts banned - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49332640
6) Neurodiversity - Feedback – Autism -
7) Caroline Lucas –
8) World News –
Argentina -
Quote of the Week - NSW is the last state domino to fall on abortion and marks the end of a more just and decent era, looking back to the Bourne case in 1938 where Justice Macnaghten declared: ‘The law of the land has always held that human life is sacred and the protection the law gives to human life extends also to the unborn child in the womb. The unborn child in the womb must not be destroyed unless the destruction of the child is for preserving the still more precious life of the mother.’
That ethical seriousness has been trashed. We now live under laws, red in tooth and claw, that give no protection whatsoever to ‘the unborn child in the womb’. We are becoming morally a society of dingoes amongst whom no baby is safe.
How did it come to this, and what is there left to love and fight for in a land that sacrifices its young, formally in law, on the altar of male libido and feminist spite
9) Helter Skelter - https://www.facebook.com/559641118/posts/10157524557846119?s=771655947&sfns=mo
10) Richard Dawkins – Are we living in a computer simulation….? How deep does the rabbit hole go?
11) Hillsong – Marty Sampson - https://theweeflea.com/2019/08/15/sampsons-samson-post-losing-his-faith/
Friday Aug 09, 2019
Friday Aug 09, 2019
- Gun Shootings.
- Abortion
Branson and Happiness. - https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/01/richard-bransons-rank-hypocrisy/
China and Happiness - https://www.facebook.com/188625661189259/posts/2633457410039393/
Socialist Sensitivities. - https://twitter.com/woke8yearold/status/1157879727757123585?s=20
Floating farm
Washing without soap - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/05/i-dont-smell-meet-the-people-who-have-stopped-washing
Abbey Road - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNqsfFUwhY
Friday Aug 02, 2019
Friday Aug 02, 2019
1) ABC – Christians Calm Down
ABC - https://theweeflea.com/2019/07/28/what-is-hell-and-does-anyone-go-there-abc-radio-show/
2) Abortion in New South Wales - NSW –support for decriminalizing abortion.
3) Joshua Harris - https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/07/kissing-christianity-goodbye
4) India – Muslim divorce law - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/muslim-women-thank-pm-modi-on-passage-of-triple-talaq-bill/articleshow/70464189.cms
6) North Korea Believers - https://www.opendoorsusa.org/take-action/pray/north-korean-secret-believers/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=OpenDoors
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/christianity-quit-growing-korea/
7) Nicolas Happy Society – https://theweeflea.com/2019/07/31/wealth-health-happiness-and-holiness-the-vision-and-sin-of-nicola-sturgeon/
8) Rochester cathedral - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7297203/Churchgoers-slam-cathedral-bosses-turn-medieval-nave-nine-hole-CRAZY-GOLF-course.html
9) Circumgender, Caitlyn as ‘mum’ Co-Op Strawberries and Mario Lopez
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/caitlyn-jenner-mum-70-girlfriend-18799085
10) Royal Baby Ban Saves Planet
https://twitter.com/DailyMailUK/status/1156184369888944133
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/31/meghan-markle-is-the-worst-kind-of-snob/
11) Voice of Minnie mouse dies – Russi Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZMSePOkWI
“I never wanted to be famous, the characters I do are famous and that’s enough for me”
12) Praise - Psalm 100
Friday Jul 26, 2019
Friday Jul 26, 2019
- Boris –
….https://theweeflea.com/2019/07/25/boris-what-should-the-christian-response-be/
2) Alasdair Campbell -
3) Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt - https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/from-protests-to-trigger-warnings-the-creeping-threats-to-free-speech-at-our-universities-20190724-p52ac7.html
4) Communion on the Moon (USA) - https://hope1032.com.au/stories/faith/2019/the-day-astronaut-buzz-aldrin-took-communion-on-the-moon/
5) Gary Lineker (UK) - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/07/why-has-gary-lineker-been-appointed-a-visiting-fellow-at-oxford/
6) Reformation Defaced (Switzerland) - http://evangelicalfocus.com/cities/4602/Vandalism_against_the_wall_of_the_Reformers_in_Geneva?fbclid=IwAR3TXq5MrNUxZrHzdtnUYnlkZ5p6L6ET_-ZHSg04vKE5AOmG_sMvKNaQtlo
7) Oldest post Bible Christian letter -
8) Trans.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/19/canadas-bizarre-trans-waxing-controversy/
https://twitter.com/obianuju/status/1152755413231775745?s=12
9) Harari –
No one knows what the future will look like. Humans like to tell themselves stories, be they in the form of religion or political ideologies, such as nationalism, communism and liberalism. But none of these can adequately prepare us for what may happen in the next 50 years. New technology and climate change might make the world more different than we can possibly imagine. So we had better keep an open mind and hope for the best.
9) Alice Cooper with Alaister Begg - https://www.christiantoday.com/article/drinking-beer-is-easy-but-being-a-christian-is-a-tough-call-says-alice-cooper/132876.htm
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
The cricket - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07g4d38
Allen Josephson - https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/allen-josephson-gender-dissenter-gets-fired/
Lisa Cameron and Ian Blackford –
https://theweeflea.com/2019/07/10/dear-ian-an-open-letter-to-ian-blackford/
Mr Noah Built an Ark – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jsTsqMJ51M
Sexual abuse - https://twitter.com/spencerfildes/status/1147860149098487808?s=12
Jess Phillips – https://twitter.com/drgabaines/status/1147574333356871683?s=12
Scotland and drugs - https://theweeflea.com/2019/07/16/daddy-driscoll/?fbclid=IwAR2tza5DOjb92obdpEwyVIYyVMwbcjrGQYkPpa-n2LgYUCD5mVJAX688bD0
The US – Donald Trump –
Ridiculous story of the week - https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/civil-servant-offended-by-portrait-of-the-queen-got-10-000-compensation-1-8996076
Australia doesn’t exist. https://www.physics-astronomy.org/2018/07/australia-doesnt-exist-and-people-who.html
The Batchelorette – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV2EPyQNRMg
Mark Driscoll - https://theweeflea.com/2019/07/16/daddy-driscoll/
Good news – Joni Eareckson Tada - https://www.christianpost.com/news/joni-eareckson-tada-announces-shes-cancer-free-quite-miraculous.html?uid=38b40306c7
Article of the Week – https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/religious-freedom-handmaids-tale/
Quote of the Week –
https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2019/07/16/facebook-labels-st-augustine-quote-as-hate-speech/
“Let us never assume that if we live good lives we will be without sin; our lives should be praised only when we continue to beg for pardon. But men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others. They seek to criticize, not to correct. Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse others.”