The Dispatches

11/10/2026

This somehow feels more relevant in light of the election tsunami we once again find ourselves caught up in 🤔

05/10/2026

A salient point from Jonathan Pageau about the difficult but profound importance of Christian community from a conversation I had with him back in 2019 ❤

22/09/2026

🤖 In the latest episode of The Dispatches Podcast I sat down with longtime friend James Bergin to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly about artificial intelligence. James isn’t just a good mate, he also brings a wealth of professional expertise to this issue as a Strategic Foresight Architect and Executive GM in Tech Research. In this episode we discuss the potential benefits of AI, the serious risks it presents, James’ greatest fear about artificial intelligence, and lots more! | 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡/𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐰👇

17/09/2026

😮 As shocked as some might be by this booklet, it is important to recognise that this isn’t an aberration of legalised euthanasia. It is instead the inevitable and logical trajectory of an ideology which believes that deliberately ending the life of patients is a good and acceptable form of therapy. | 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 👇

15/09/2026

📣 Last week I appeared on Rhema with Diane Campbell to talk about the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and the profound cultural implications of the terrorist attacks that changed the West in radical ways.

Twenty-five years on from September 11, Brendan Malone from LifeNet...

11/09/2026

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 Terror Attacks which brought down the World Trade Centre. In this episode I speak to Kiwi pastor Jason Winslade about his personal story of being present at ground zero in New York City, on Tuesday 11th of September 2001 as the terrorist attacks unfolded immediately above and around him. This isn’t just a personal account of surviving one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in US history on what was supposed to be a normal day at work, it’s also a powerful story of the path to conversion and redemption for a young man who discovered that there was more to life than career and a hedonistic search for self-fulfilment on that harrowing September morning.

👉 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐰: https://thecounterculture.substack.com/publish/post/215006127

09/09/2026

Over the past couple of weeks, Simon O’Connor and myself both made separate guest appearances on the podcast of American atheist philosopher Peter Boghassian. Yesterday Simon invited me on to his show to compare notes about this, and also to talk about the issue of AI po*******hy, plus the Stuff fact checking of NZ First MP Elizabeth Mundt’s public statements about the Ardern Labour Government’s extreme abortion law.👇

In this episode of Family Matters, Simon O'Connor sits down with cu...

07/09/2026

🚩 Late this afternoon, Stuff NZ published a ‘fact check’ of social media statements made by NZ First candidate Elizabeth Mundt about New Zealand’s abortion law. The irony is that they’ve actually ended up showing that she was essentially correct in what she has said, and that we do indeed have an extreme abortion law in NZ now. 👉 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐭: www.thedispatches.nz

07/09/2026

Almost three years before the 9/11 attacks, an initially under appreciated fictional Hollywood blockbuster eerily predicted much of what was to come in the West 👉 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐭: www.thedispatches.nz

02/09/2026

🤔 Dishonest Narrative framing in true crime media is not new, but it has now spiralled out of control after becoming coupled with the runaway freight train that is social media. Is it time for social media companies to adopt better policies?

👉 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐭: www.thedispatches.nz