muslim at church

I preached my first sermon at my summer placement at Ponsonby Baptist today.  After the service, I met a young Muslim man from Bahrain.  He was in the country seeking asylum, and said he wanted to come to church because Christianity was similar to Islam.  I agreed – there is much that Islam and Christianity have in common (see previous . . . → Read More: muslim at church

meaning

I’m happy to be accused of ‘middle-ism’1, but with regard to the question of inherent meaning in/to any things or events2, it seems that meaningfulness is between the extreme on one hand of seeing too little – or no – meaning (nihilism)3, and the extreme on the other of seeing too much meaning (superstition)4.

The spectrum seems an honest one.

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