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It’s ‘inorganic rubbish collection’ time in Northcote, Auckland, New Zealand. Northcote street-sides are loaded down with previously-wanted, cheaply-made, briefly-enjoyed and hastily-discarded stuff. Interestingly, a rather large percentage of the items you’ll see piled outside homes in the area can be seen in pre-broken, pre-rusted or pre-outdated condition in store advertising fliers like the “Outdoor Living ’08” catalogue from the Warehouse . . . → Read More: buying rubbish In this sermon to head-masters/mistresses, Wright touches on quite a few important concerns – especially for our time. In particular, he focuses on at least two examples of foolishness ( 1) economic foolishness demonstrated in the current ‘crisis’, and 2) the foolishness of the so-called ‘evolution-creation debate’) and the need for wisdom. Good stuff, Bishop.  21 comments - (Comments are closed)  bible, christianity, www  belief, change, christianity, consumerism, creation, culture, current event, debate, discernment, ethics, evil, evolution, faith, god, humanity, interpretation, jesus, justice, learning, life, morals, N.T. Wright, politics, religion, science, theology, truth, wisdom 700 billion is an incredible amount of money. I fully admit I know very little about the complexities of the recent situation with the folding-in of large banks in the US. But I find the hype and hollering about impending financial crisis (not to mention the proposed 700 billion dollar bail-out) to be an insult to the rest of the . . . → Read More: 700 billion watch it here (worth all 20 minutes of your time). Note: The scope of this thing is so huge, please don’t fault it for making sweeping statements – to cover what it does in 20 minutes, it has to make its statements as general as possible. The US of A just spent $168 billion… (or 152, depending on sources) Might wanna read that again… What did they spend it on? Shopping… that’s right, shopping… This makes me want to release a torrent of various expletives… Each tax-paying American recently received hundreds of dollars to –yes– go shopping. The ridiculous rhetoric used for this was that of . . . → Read More: why the “economic stimulus” is a load of bull… 6 comments - (Comments are closed) ethics, politics advertising, consumerism, culture, current event, death, debate, derek webb, dignity, discernment, ethics, evil, humanity, life, morals, peace, politics, poverty The Romans 1:1-17 targum wasn’t enough… …I had to post this one as well… Again, I advise reading these two simple verses in an easy-to-read translation before reading the targum… In case it’s not obvious, Walsh is anything but a typical ‘republican-style’ Christian… If this doesn’t stir your heart, check your pulse… . . . → Read More: brian walsh: targum of Romans 12:1-2 27 comments - (Comments are closed) bible, christianity, politics, theology brian walsh, christianity, consumerism, creation, culture, discernment, ethics, faith, god, gospel, grace, humanity, interpretation, jesus, kingdom of god, life, peace, politics, spirituality, suffering, targum, theology Read Romans 1:1-17 (in a good, easy to read translation like NIV or CEV), and then check out Brian J. Walsh’s ‘targum’ (an interpretive ‘modernisation’ of a given passage) of it… (Copied from here) I just love this stuff… . . . → Read More: brian walsh: targum of Romans 1:1-17 3 comments - (Comments are closed) art, bible, christianity, theology brian walsh, christianity, consumerism, faith, gospel, humanity, imagination, interpretation, jesus, kingdom of god, politics, poverty, spirituality, targum, theology New Zealand is becoming more like America every minute. And it’s not a good thing. Yet another Temple for Capitalism (a.k.a. shopping mall) has just recently had it’s grand opening not far from my flat. So many people were flocking to this Marketing Mecca that traffic was jammed all opening-day long. Lately I’ve been thinking more and more about how . . . → Read More: buying identity The sign read… Shirts. $15. It’s safe to say that I’m not obsessed with fashion, but to say that I couldn’t care less about how I look wouldn’t exactly be true either! At any rate, I like a good deal as I was walking past this particular clothing store, I almost popped in. I didn’t, though. I turned up my . . . → Read More: choosing temptation? One comment - (Comments are closed) bible, christianity, ethics consumerism, culture, life, temptation |
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