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To put a kenotic theological spin on Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin’s
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The really sad thing about blaming “religion” for all hostility and violence to gay people is that it leaves the real causes (i.e. fear and insecurity) unexposed, and the hostility and violence continues… Stephen Sizer is in NZ. He preached this past Sunday at our church, and is doing a seminar called “7 Biblical Responses to Popular Zionist Assumptions” tomorrow night. It’s been good revisiting the whole Zionism issue again, and refreshing my understanding of the issue. The Zionists are concerned to demonstrate that God will not ‘forget his people Israel’, and that . . . → Read More: a different zion(ism) I was pleased to be asked along with Dr. Graeme Finlay (Senior Lecturer in the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre & Molecular Medicine & Pathology in the School of Medical Sciences at Auckland University) to take part in a talk-back show on Evolution and Christianity today. I had to laugh when Graeme and the host Pat called me a theologian; last I checked, a . . . → Read More: evolution discussion on rhema With Damian of damian.peterson.net.nz and Ian of authorofconfusion.wordpress.com From (before) Epicurus through to modern voices, there have been those who question that God can be both all-powerful and all-loving or all-good. (“Because evil continues to exist, God is either not powerful enough to end it, or not good enough to want to end it.”) Leaving to one side the interesting discussion about how we can know what ‘good’ . . . → Read More: omnipotence and kenosis One of my favourite Proverbs is 14:4 Where there are no oxen, the stall is clean, but from the strength of an ox comes an abundant harvest. In order to have a harvest, you’ll have to put up with a fair whack of crap! I was thinking of this in relation to the problem of evil. In order to have an . . . → Read More: life: mess included I used to work in sales at a lumber yard, where we sold all kinds of (mostly residential) building materials from lumber, to paint, to plumbing, electrical supplies, hardware, doors/windows, roofing, power tools, etc. I grew up working with quite a few of these things, as my Dad was a residential framer. Nonetheless, there were various things I knew very . . . → Read More: eavesdroppers |
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