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With any discipline or line of enquiry, patience is a virtue. We must have patience regarding the amount we will ever be able to know about a given topic. Whether your ‘-ology’ is of ‘bios’, ‘theos’, or ‘cosmos’, it’s essential to remember that there will always be more questions. For some, this is an enquiry-stopper. ”Heck, if we can’t know . . . → Read More: patience… When people rant about “organised religion” they may or may not know what they are dissing. Westporo Baptist Church (the infamous “god hates fags” church) has no official (or unofficial?) ties to ANY denomination or other church(s). There are untold thousands of less-controversial churches and preachers, which nonetheless stray off into variously worrying forms of fundamentalism. For these kinds of . . . → Read More: “organised religion” Some presentations and presenters of Christianity are, in my view, overly obsessed with the Death of Jesus such that they over-emphasise it, and end up marginalising the Incarnation of Jesus, the Ministry of Jesus, the Resurrection of Jesus, the Ascension of Jesus and the giving of the Spirit of Jesus. It probably wouldn’t be fair to use any label for . . . → Read More: full gospel I’m probably the only worship song leaders who, during a Christmas day worship service, introduced the song “O Holy Night” by way of a reference to the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, which recounts his experiences in the death camps Auschwitz (which I’ve visited and will never forget) and Buchenwald. The juxtaposition is too profound to ignore. On the one . . . → Read More: night Epistemology is the most foundational of topics in philosophy. How trustworthy is human knowledge? Or worded another way: How much ‘faith’ (Greek ‘pistis’ for ‘trust’) can we put in what we think we know? At one end of the spectrum, you have narrow, ‘verificationist’ epistemologies (such as: logical positivism & naive realism) that only trust knowledge that can be ‘verified’ by . . . → Read More: a trinity of ‘knowledge-lights’… Well, it’s been a good little while since I’ve posted, because I’ve been finishing my undergrad degree I’ve turned in my last essay just this Sunday, which was one of two larger (6,000 word) research projects. I attach links to the PDFs below. Upon graduation in March, I will officially have three qualifications, one related to building houses, and two . . . → Read More: finished how much… destruction is at work in the ‘best’ of people… and how much… grace is at work in the ‘worst’ of people. in other words… you’re never so good that you’re beyond the influence of evil and… you’re never so bad that you’re beyond the reach of God. I’ve long held the view that God doesn’t always get what God wants/wills/desires. It seems fundamentally basic to me. Because, there is more than one way to be omnipotent. By way of analogy, take my non-omnipotence… my mere potency. I possess the ‘ability’, or ‘power’ or ‘potency’ to do this or that thing. I am, within the laws of physics, . . . → Read More: lamb power Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind & strength Love your neighbour as you… Love your self. Love of God, neighbour and self are all interwoven. I’ve been thinking lately about confession, which – like love – occurs in relationship. Protestants often are quick to give reasons why they don’t confess to a priest like Catholics. “Through Christ, . . . → Read More: the (w)hole in our confession Q: Why does no Roman historian mention Jesus’ resurrection!? Surely if something so extraordinary happened, they would have written about it!? A: One thing we know about the period is that, from a Graeco-Roman perspective, bodily life after death would have been mocked1 and undesirable2. This is why the Gospel (to which the Resurrection of Jesus is an essential and . . . → Read More: on jesus’ quiet resurrection |
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