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Do you trust? Do you believe? I’m not talking (at least in this post!) about God – I’m talking about convicted criminals! Tapu Misa has written another thought-provoking piece about –among other things– the house-arrest conditions of Bailey Kurariki, suggesting that the public needs to trust him to learn how to live in society. . . . → Read More: trust and believe… criminals!? For some reason, I respect people the most when they obviously are very smart, but are ever-concious that they don’t know everything. Matter of fact, it seems that the more you know, the more you become aware of all the things you don’t know.  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  christianity, philosophy  belief, culture, debate, discernment, faith, humanity, humility, identity, interpretation, learning, life, philosophy, science, theology, truth, wisdom I’m well aware of this topics’ controversial nature. In fact, that’s part of the reason I’ve been wanting to write about this for a while. What I do not want to do is quote verses or provide what I think ‘the Bible says’ about this issue. Of course, I do have a view on that, but that specific pathway into . . . → Read More: sexual identity remixed 33 comments - (Comments are closed) christianity, ethics, philosophy debate, ethics, identity, morals, philosophy, sexuality I try to limit how often I quote individual bible-verses out of context, but this one is quite a hard one to twist into meaning something else… “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, . . . → Read More: pure imagination One comment - (Comments are closed) christianity advertising, christianity, discernment, emotions, identity, imagination, spirituality 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 One of the most bizarre notions in the entire universe is also one of the most important doctrines of Christianity. It’s the idea of a new identity. The over-abundance of self-help books, ‘inspirational’ seminars and ‘inner-peace’ tapes/CD’s only begin to show our human obsession with life change. We want it. We crave it. We need it. We know something is . . . → Read More: let’s see some I.D. please |
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