Adrian Drayton

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Regulator Warns Elon Musk’s X Struggling To Curb Child Abuse Material

Warning: Mentions of child sexual abuse material. Australia’s online safety regulator has issued a stark warning about Elon Musk’s social media platform X, describing it as the worst-performing major platform for tackling child sexual abuse material, intensifying scrutiny of the company’s safety practices and artificial intelligence tools. According to reporting by Crikey, the eSafety Commissioner […]

Adrian Drayton · 19 March 2026

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Project Hail Mary: Salvation, Sacrifice, and the Courage Borrowed from Friendship

When Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir’s follow-up to The Martian, arrived in 2021, it felt like an unusual bestseller. It was science fiction, yes — full of equations, orbital mechanics, and alien biology — but at heart it was disarmingly sincere. Now, with the film adaptation bringing the story to the screen, that sincerity remains […]

Adrian Drayton · 19 March 2026

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Creation Care as Faithful Worship

It’s often easy to overlook that fact that the Bible actually has a lot to say about the stewardship of the planet. Genesis 2:15 presents a clear picture of what and how we should be treating the environment. God placed humans in the garden “to till it and keep it.” Work and care go hand […]

Adrian Drayton · 9 March 2026

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New Research From Barna Finds Young Christians Turning to Chatbots for Spiritual Guidance

A growing number of young adults are turning to artificial intelligence not just for information or productivity, but for matters of faith. New research from the Barna Group, conducted in partnership with faith technology company Gloo, suggests AI is becoming a significant spiritual conversation partner for Gen Z and Millennials, sometimes rivalling traditional pastoral authority. […]

Adrian Drayton · 5 March 2026

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In Defence of the Em Dash (and Its Slightly Shorter Cousin)

There is a very loud campaign underway against the em dash. You’ve seen it. A raised eyebrow on social media. A snide comment in a writers’ forum. “Ah yes,” someone types, “another em dash. Clearly written by AI.” The implication being that the humble dash—once the mark of a careful essayist or mildly dramatic columnist—has […]

Adrian Drayton · 3 March 2026

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Speaking Truth with Gentleness in Divided Times

In First Epistle of Peter 3:15–16, believers are instructed to set apart Christ as Lord in their hearts and to be prepared to give an answer to anyone who asks for the reason for their hope. The instruction does not stop there. It adds that this answer must be given with gentleness and respect, keeping […]

Adrian Drayton · 2 March 2026

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Carrying Your Cross Today

Jesus says in the Gospel of Luke 9:23, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” The verse is direct. If you want to follow him, you deny yourself. You take up your cross. You do it daily. There is no gap between belief and […]

Adrian Drayton · 24 February 2026

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When Forgiveness Costs Everything: Revisiting The Mission 40 Years On

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1: 5 In 1986, The Mission arrived with the confidence of a prestige epic: sweeping landscapes, Ennio Morricone’s aching score, Robert De Niro hauling a sack of armour up a cliff in penance, the searing image of a martyr being sent over a […]

Adrian Drayton · 16 February 2026

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Leaning Into Lent

This year Lent begins on 18 February. It is one of those times in the Christian calendar that people know is about giving something up. But Lent is also the season that asks you to stop pretending that faith is effortless. It sits in the church calendar as a long stretch of days that resist […]

Adrian Drayton · 11 February 2026

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Chris Pratt, Mercy, and the Faith That Shaped His Life

Chris Pratt’s new sci-fi thriller Mercy is in cinemas, casting him in a dramatically different light from the roguish charm of Guardians of the Galaxy or the affable action-hero energy of Jurassic World. In Mercy, Pratt plays a future-era LAPD detective racing against an artificial intelligence judge – and against the clock – to prove his innocence in his wife’s […]

Adrian Drayton · 3 February 2026

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What C.S. Lewis Can Still Teach Us About Technology

As the new year begins, many of us start doing a quiet audit of the year that was and the year ahead. What drained us. What helped. What we want to carry forward and what we’d like to leave behind. Increasingly, technology turns up in that thinking. Not because phones and social media are new, […]

Adrian Drayton · 21 January 2026

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Time to Check What Your Body Thinks of Doomscrolling

You probably notice how often your phone pulls you out of the present moment. You check it while waiting in line, before a conversation ends, after a pause in your thoughts. That pattern is not incidental. It reflects a deeper shift in how you experience boredom and what your mind does when it is not […]

Adrian Drayton · 20 January 2026