ZA MAGAZINE // brendan

a healthy dose of humility

It happened again.
This time, it’s a pastor from a church called Planetshakers that’s located in Melbourne. Australia’s Herald Sun reports that one of their pastors faked having cancer to avoid owning up to a pornography addiction that spanned 16 years. And apparently it was a convincing charade - unexplained illnesses that started around the same [...]

reflections on “giving up your rights”

As I write these articles, I find that I don’t want to inject too much Brendan into them. I’ll tell a story or something, but I want the articles to have a timeless element to them and I don’t want to be a narcissist. However, I’ve felt restricted at times with this, so I’ve been [...]

reflections on “concealing knowledge”

There are a couple of things that I find amazing about what happens when I teach, be it a Bible study at school or an article here. First, I find that when I start writing about a subject, I see it going on either in my life or all around my life. Second, I get [...]

reflections on studying abroad.

I could spend years on this. Or not. Probably more like days. But I don’t want these blog posts to be marathons and I don’t want to steal RMU’s thunder when I finally update my blog over there.
To those who want to study abroad, I say do it if you have the funds. It’s been [...]

reflections on a turning point.

Shortly after the year 2006 started, I found myself facing what has been my single biggest spiritual battle to date. I had had some big stuff happen in my spiritual life and shortly thereafter I had this period where I could not connect to God for the life of me. I’ve never felt so dry, [...]

i’m still learning!

So ZA has been active for just a couple of days now, not even a week, and I finally get to test the feature I was most excited about - comments! I’ve got a list of tweaks that want to make to make everything better, so keep a watch out for that.
If you have any [...]