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Christian South Africans thinking in the open about culture, ethics, literature, Scripture and God in our context.

Tag Idolatry

Kings and Christian Leadership: Sin Brings Forth Death

Kings and Christian Leadership: Sin Brings Forth Death

This post will serve as the final installation in my series on the Old Testament book of Kings. The purpose throughout has been to apply King’s theology of leadership to...

Graham Heslop
15 Oct 2020

Pastor, Why Do You Want a Big Church?

Does that strike you as a strange question? Of course we want big churches because that will mean more people know and love the Lord Jesus Christ. That may be...

Graham Heslop
19 Mar 2019

John Calvin on Scripture: Inventing God

I am going to assume that you have noticed the power of social media to provide a voice and platform for opinions, however outlandish; perhaps you are reading this or...

Graham Heslop
19 Jul 2018

Steve Jobs and the Creep of Technology

Though originally said in dismissal of market research, Steve Jobs’ now famous words, “People don't know what they want until you show it to them,” teach us something about consumerism...

Graham Heslop
20 Jun 2018

Dominus Regnavit: Donald Trump and the Idolatry of Politics

Last week Wednesday signified a paradigmatic shift for America and perhaps the whole world. Though I personally followed the electoral race closely, in TIME – explaining my incredulity that Donald...

Graham Heslop
17 Nov 2016

Managing Technology

In Surprised by Joy, C. S. Lewis grumbled about how modern transport has annihilated space, “one of the most glorious gifts we have been given. It is a vile inflation...

Graham Heslop
03 Sep 2015

More Ways Technology Takes

Two weeks back I posted on some of technology’s drawbacks. Reiterating a point made by Tim Challies, I started by arguing that our eyes are only open to the positive...

Graham Heslop
20 Aug 2015

Technology Takes

Most Christians have at some point sung along to Matt Redman’s chorus “You give and take away,” ad nauseam, in a church service or coming from your first generation iPod....

Graham Heslop
06 Aug 2015

Technology: Saviour or Servant

Since first seeing the film in 2009 and subsequently as well as hurriedly reading the graphic novel, I have found The Watchmen fascinating. Few stories, in my opinion, so cleverly...

Graham Heslop
18 Mar 2014

Doodle: Idolatry Of The Lesser Known

"Do you think that they're too cool now? Being popular is lame. You're the one who made them popular, all their songs are still the same." I don't know when...

Graham Heslop
18 Jan 2013