fruitful faith

So I should probably post about my recent trip to India.
I could give a ‘what we got up to’ report of the work our team did (some still over – some still yet to go) on the new Freeset T-shirts building.  But we didn’t only go as labourers – we went to observe as well. [...]

February 25th, 2010 | Tags: caste system, cultural assumptions, dignity, ethics, freeset, hindu, humanity, india, kolkata, prostitution, truth, value, violence, worth | Category: christianity, ethics, general, philosophy, politics | Leave a comment

Thanks, Ian Luxmoore…
…for a friendly, respectful, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable conversation about life, god, the universe, morality and all the rest.

September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, debate, evolution, faith, god, life, order, philosophy, religion, science, theism, truth | Category: general | Comments (4)

Quite interesting (I’m slowly working through them in spare time, which I’ve not got much of!)

June 2nd, 2009 | Tags: technology, truth, wisdom | Category: ethics, technology, www | Leave a comment

The most basic question one could ask is one which is asked and wondered at both by small children and genius level intellectuals.
It has various forms, and is worded differently, but is essentially the same question:
Where did we come from?
Alternate forms include: Why are we (or anything!) here?  How did things come into being?  Why [...]

May 25th, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, creation, theism, theology, truth | Category: philosophy | Comments (23)

Friggin’ hilarious…  and a bit true as well

April 29th, 2009 | Tags: busyness, complacency, consumerism, culture, life, technology, truth, web, wisdom | Category: general, philosophy, technology, www | Comments (10)

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 [...]

April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, conflict, debate, emotions, faith, god, philosophy, religion, science, theology, truth, web | Category: atheism, philosophy, science, theology, www | Comments (8)

There are at least two kinds of ‘value’ – a) the kind science can measure, and b) the kind that science cannot.

April 6th, 2009 | Tags: dignity, epistemology, random, science, truth | Category: philosophy, science | Comments (1)

I’ve quite enjoyed reading through “Is Nature Enough: Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science“, by John Haught.  One of the many points he articulates well is what he refers to as “layered explanation”.

January 28th, 2009 | Tags: abortion, atheism, belief, books, debate, epistemology, ethics, faith, morals, philosophy, religion, science, theism, truth, worldview | Category: atheism, philosophy, science, theology | Comments (54)

Obama’s recent statements on the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, remind us all (like it or not) of the immensely divisive issue of abortion.  The article says…

January 22nd, 2009 | Tags: abortion, change, conflict, culture, current event, death, debate, dignity, ethics, humanity, humility, Law, life, morals, philosophy, politics, relationships, sexuality, truth, wisdom | Category: ethics, philosophy | Comments (7)