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head and heart, thinking and feeling, rationality and emotion, yeah? I’m interested in ideas/responses to the following four questions… (Read ‘em slow enough to actually properly think and feel! And also… even though they obviously relate/overlap/interlock, the questions aren’t meant to flow on from one another, but rather are meant to be stand-alone… ish.) What do you think about how . . . → Read More: head-heart miscellaneous thoughts… if the time we spend is to be at all worthwhile, we need to accept that words matter enough to use them and work at our use of them (some key words in science/faith include: ‘knowledge’, ‘evidence’, ‘explanation’, ‘natural’, ‘reality’, etc). it occurs to me that aiming for mutual understanding is infinitely more helpful than aiming to ‘win’. . . . → Read More: on science/faith blogging… I thought it would be a bit of fun to put this INCREDIBLE (but I’m not biased) picture up and let people try out some captions for it… Have fun! I admit it. I began to tear up at the end of this 15-minute short video called ‘validated‘ (couldn’t work out how to embed it) …  2 comments  general, www  creation, culture, dignity, emotions, fellowship, film, humanity, life, love, pain, spirituality There are different ways of understanding what a worldview is, or what questions it seeks to answer or how it is gained or what it is shaped by. When people of different perspectives, beliefs (and yes, different worldviews) discuss what a ‘worldview’ is, it is easy for their own worldview to influence things. I freely admit the likelihood of my . . . → Read More: worldviewing (Click the post title to see the 19.5 week scan!) Now that we’re out of the 12-week ‘danger zone’, I can (happily) share that my wife and I (well, really just her!) are expecting a baby in late Jan / early Feb!!! The little guy (we actually don’t know the gender – and might not choose to find out before birth – but I’m going with ‘boy’ all the way!) . . . → Read More: oh baby… I briefly met someone recently who was supervising a group of youth who were attending the ‘Get Smart’ conference in Auckland, NZ. He asked if I had been attending the conference. When I said no, he replied, “Oh man, it’s great. We were just there and when we left things were still going. Carnage, man. Just carnage.” I was genuinely . . . → Read More: ‘carnage?’ 19 comments - (Comments are closed) christianity, theology compartmentalisation, discernment, discipleship, emotions, god, Holy Spirit, interpretation, religion, spiritual gifts, spirituality The other day, a friend of mine at Carey college was sharing with me and a few others how grieved he’d been lately (due to various tragic things happening to people close to him). He mentioned lying in bed and trying to pray, not knowing what to say, and eventually just offering an extended, rumbling, inward groan to God… Now, . . . → Read More: the groaning language of prayer I’ve posted before on this topic, and thought I’d share a bit more about it. Hopefully, these thoughts will be helpful in aiding fruitful discussion… I’ve observed a distinction between 3 things that I feel are necessary to distinguish between in order to most helpfully discuss the topic of sexuality. Actually, these three things can, I suggest, be distinguished helpfully . . . → Read More: sexual identity – again… 38 comments - (Comments are closed) christianity, ethics belief, conflict, culture, current event, debate, discernment, emotions, ethics, humanity, identity, imagination, life, morals, relationships, sexuality |
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