By Peter Corney
Summary: Artists, writers, film makers and playwrights in the 20th C often reflected in their work a sense of alienation, of being alone in a hostile and dystopian world. There was a feeling of bleakness about the present and frequently an apocalyptic vision of the future like Orwell’s “1984”. Other examples are Colin [...]

By Peter Corney
When English Christians in the late 18th and early 19th C. began the process of sensitizing their nation’s conscience to it’s involvement in the Trans Atlantic slave trade they chose a very significant campaign logo. The logo was a picture of an African slave in chains, his hands raised in pleading, surrounded with [...]

by Peter Corney
In today’s image saturated culture the most well known and iconic images are those created by advertising agencies; Maca’s golden arches, Nike’s swoosh, Apple’s apple!
But in the second half of the 19th C one of the most well known images in the English speaking world was a picture of Christ painted by William [...]

By Peter Corney
On Saturday March 21st this year The Age carried an unusual graphic with the lead story in the business section. The story was about the international financial crisis and excessive executive payouts. It showed an engraving of Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden and an angel standing guard at [...]

The 2007 J. Spencer Nall Memorial Lecture

‘Christ and Culture’ (The challenge – To conform or to transform?)

The key issue I want to address is whether we as Christians will allow ourselves to conform to the culture we are part of or will we seek to transform it by the values and Spirit of the [...]

By Peter Corney
There has been a profound change in the way many western people understand themselves in relation to God, spirituality and religious concepts. In short God and the self have blurred into one. The forces that have brought about this change are complex but here are three key factors in the process.
First, out of [...]