Katherine Grocott

Extrapolations and Ecotheology

Review: Extrapolations This article contains spoilers for the Television series, Extrapolations.  Extrapolations is an eight-episode anthology series which explores a number of environmental consequences based on scientific projections for a given future year. With a large number of famous actors supporting the project, including Meryl Streep, Kit Harington, Tobey Maguire, Sienna Millar, Forest Whitaker, David […]

Katherine Grocott · 5 September 2024

Church Planting in the New Testament 

Often when we think of church planting, we think of mega churches, with satellite campuses and technology that streams services from one to another in the blink of an eye. Churches like Hillsong here in Australia, or Mars Hill in the United States, come to mind. We may think of independent churches setting up in […]

Katherine Grocott · 18 June 2024

May: The Coming of the Spirit 

5 May 1 John 5:1-6 One of the great places to learn about love is in music – or is it?  Love is one of the major themes of contemporary music. Yet, when you listen to the lyrics, what is described as love is often self-gratification, selfish, obsessive, stalking, objectification, and the like.  This is […]

Katherine Grocott · 26 April 2024

April: Producing good fruit 

7 April Psalm 133, Acts 4:32-33  Psalm 133 is only three verses long. It extols the goodness of people living together in unity and harmony. It is a space of God’s blessing and prosperous life. While I have no illusions that the unity of The Walking Dead communities will last very long (this is a […]

Katherine Grocott · 31 March 2024

The Walking Dead is Not About Zombies 

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the television show The Walking Dead.  The Walking Dead is an American television show based on a comic book series of the same name. Highly rated, with many awards nominated and won, the show ran for eleven seasons and spawned several spin-off series.   It focuses on an ever-changing group […]

Katherine Grocott · 27 February 2024

March: We Still Need Jesus 

3 March, 2024: Exodus 20:1-17  I have been watching the acclaimed series The Walking Dead, a show about a worldwide zombie apocalypse. But the zombies aren’t the point. It is about the way in which the human survivors navigate a new world. Will they lose their humanity or will they be able to create something […]

Katherine Grocott · 26 February 2024

Wrestling with Artificial Intelligence

This contains spoilers for the television shows Mrs Davis and Westworld. People are fascinated by robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Ever since the iconic Maria in Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis, humans have toyed with the notion of making mechanical creatures in their own image. It goes beyond appearances, however, and extends into robots having self-awareness, […]

Katherine Grocott · 1 February 2024

Another Year of Violence Against Women

Warning: This article describes violence against women of various kinds including murder. Reader discretion is advised. It also contains spoilers for the shows Safe Home and The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. I was recently looking for some Australian drama to watch on television and an article listing ten top shows for 2023 included two […]

Katherine Grocott · 18 January 2024

Lessons From Barbieland

This analysis contains spoilers for Barbie. The new Barbie movie, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is a visual and thought-provoking feast of cinema. Inspired by the Mattel doll, created by Ruth Handler and launched in 1959, the movie follows the adventures of Stereotypical Barbie as she journeys from Barbieland […]

Katherine Grocott · 4 August 2023

Singleness in the Church

In April 2023, the Church of England released a new 238 page report entitled Love Matters. Commissioned by the Bishops of Canterbury and York, it is the third instalment of a series exploring housing, social care, and relationships and family. It contains five key messages, the third of which reads, “We must honour singleness and […]

Katherine Grocott · 10 July 2023

The Influence and Impact of Walter Wink’s <em>Engaging the Powers</em>

Walter Wink was an American theologian, pastor, and activist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Ordained in the Methodist Church in 1961, he later became a Professor focussing on the New Testament and Biblical Interpretation. He taught at Union Theological Seminary and later Auburn Theological Seminary in New York. He died in 2012, [&hellip;]

Katherine Grocott · 2 May 2023

The Gospel According to Bluey

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the children’s television series Bluey. Please feel free to watch (and thoroughly enjoy) the episodes talked about and then return to the article! Bluey is an Australian children’s television series focusing on six year old Bluey, a Blue Heeler pup, and her family. Bluey has a little sister, Bingo, [&hellip;]

Katherine Grocott · 21 March 2023