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I’ve long held that disabled persons have a gift. Albeit is is a gift that few if anyone want. But some of the most mature, caring people I’ve known (in my youth work and elsewhere) have been people who have had the privilege (one nobody asks for) of having a sibling or child who is disabled. Disabled people teach us . . . → Read More: helped helpers Three recent events, a complaint about a sermon, a movie about Margaret Thatcher and a FB conversation about gun laws, have me reflecting on the tendencies of ‘left-wingers’ and ‘right-wingers’. Both left and right folk will express concern for both ‘rights’ and ‘responsibilities’, but at different times. On the topic of social welfare: the left emphasise the ‘rights’ of the . . . → Read More: rights and responsibilities 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 …funny how most (not all!) American Christians are happy to ‘get political’ when it comes to abortion and gay marriage (‘Oh yes, let’s fight for godly legislation!’), but scream ‘socialism’ when it comes to issues like benefits for poor, out of work, or infirm people – or (shock, horror) free health care… Doom to you who legislate evil, who make . . . → Read More: prophecy & politics Admittedly a bit dated, but a 1998 paper by the Joint Methodist-Presbyterian Public Questions Committee suggested that for those “whose emotional or physical make-up means that it is unlikely they would ever be able to enter a mutually acceptable and honest physical relationship with another person’, prostitutes should be provided, and that “to deny such people any opportunity to express . . . → Read More: eros-anthropos? Pardon the double negative, but it’s not for no reason that the title of philosopher, author and atheist, Dr. Erik J. Wielenberg’s article in a recent issue of the American Theological Inquiry (yes, a theological journal published an article by an atheist) is called “OBJECTIVE MORALITY AND THE NATURE OF REALITY”. Views of morality and reality are inseparable. Ontology is . . . → Read More: ethical being The notion is reflected commonly in popular discourse. Humans wreck the planet and the earth, the universe, or nature ‘fights back’. Noah’s flood, local or global is nothing compared to what our angry step-mother-nature will do if we don’t change our ways and look after the planet better… Makes an entertaining novel, movie, etc. Because in our culture, we are . . . → Read More: mother nature as killer Somewhat related to epistemology (but I’m not going there now) is the question of how emotion & desire can relate truth or moral guidance. It is often assumed by we post-Romantics that ‘doing what you want’ is about the most sinful or dangerous thing imaginable. ‘Doing what is right’ is better, we say; …and if what is ‘right’ happens to . . . → Read More: want vs. like It’s not every day you see an article in a theological journal by an atheist. But lo and behold, the latest issue (downloadable here freely) of American Theological Inquiry includes a ‘guest’ article by Erik J. Wielenberg called “Objective Morality and the Nature of Reality”, which is a rejoinder to a theistic critique in a former issue. He calls his . . . → Read More: brute moral facts? Just reading those intro chapters of Genesis, and I noticed what seems quite a contrast between the human vocation statements in the two creation stories. Gen 1:28 says humans are to ‘fill‘ (מָלֵא mala – be full; fill) and ‘subdue‘ (כָּבַשׁ kabash – be raped; subjugate; be humiliated; etc.) the earth… Then Gen 2:15 says they are to ‘tend‘ (עָבַד . . . → Read More: rapists into lovers? |
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