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We have our backs to the water. And a tsunami is coming. That was essentially what ABC's Sarah Ferguson said recently on the Politics Now podcast: the Federal Government can see what's about to hit, and the electorate is a bit too relaxed about it. Most of us know the global situation is volatile. But most of us are looking the other way, assuming everything will be fine. The Bible has a name for that assumption. It calls it foolishness. Do not boast about tomorrow, for you d

The Book of Jonah presents an irresistible interpretive puzzle: is it really history, or, as many scholars suggest, Hebrew satire? The case for history is not trivial. The protagonist Jonah is named and dateable: 2 Kings 14:25 identifies Jonah ben Amittai as a real eighth-century prophet from Gath-hepher who served under Jeroboam II. And Nineveh is no vague mythological backdrop. It is a real, documented, excavated city with deep fish-deity mythology, and its artifacts sit in

You drive home in the dark after something lovely. The evening was everything you hoped it would be, there was laughter, warmth, the particular ease of being with people you love. And yet somewhere between pulling out of the driveway and pulling into your own, something in you quietly drops. You stand at the sink rinsing plates and notice it: a kind of interior deflation. Not grief, exactly. Not ingratitude. Something harder to name. That feeling deserves to be sat with befor