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Irreducible Complexity and the Incompetent Demiurge
I'm reading "the one book all atheists should read", AKA The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart (Yale 2013). Not because I'm an atheist but because I need all the help I can get in being a theist....
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50 Shades of Grey and Independence Day, Ash Carter's Post Shower Ramble
[This is a guest post by Ash Carter, is he right is our scientific progress masking our cultural and moral decay, or are these social changes also progress andpart of the way things must go? Let me...
View ArticleThe Politics of Prayer
Check out Don Burrows'excellent dissection of the Lord's Prayer's political resonances against the background of the Roman Empire. You''ll be glad you did.pax
View ArticleHart on Naturalism, Existence and God
So, life is kind of hectic and reading has not been high enough on the priorities recently, but this afternoon I picked up The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart (Yale 2013) again. The book is...
View ArticleStone the crows it's a mini black hole!
Well my blog doesn't really try that hard to be topical but to see in the news that scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Cern have decidied now that the big bang probably didn't happen but that...
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Apocalyptic Paul
So as someone who has struggled to keep up with currents in Pauline studies over the last 5 years, has limited time for reading and blogging I wanted to try and get a handle on "Apocalyptic." General...
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The curse of the Hebrew tattoo strikes again
Those of us who study the biblical languages are used to hearing them abused in sermons and increasingly must be wary of their abuse in the wonderful world of tattoos. In the western world what was...
View ArticleI don't have a tattoo but if I did it would be this one
Seriously, this has to be the cleverest, most poetic and original tattoo to get done . . .וְשֶׂ֣רֶט לָנֶ֗פֶשׁ לֹ֤א תִתְּנוּ֙ בִּבְשַׂרְכֶ֔ם וּכְתֹ֣בֶת קַֽעֲקַ֔ע לֹ֥א תִתְּנ֖וּ בָּכֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י...
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Safety first when identifying incorrect Hebrew tattoos
While spotting incorrect tattoos is fun, if you were to spot one on someone famous for being a double hard b*st*rd who could squash you like a pea without breaking a sweat, someone like Australian UFC...
View ArticleStop saying "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin"
I have long intuitively despised that insipid saying and the lazy ethics and theologising that usually preceded it, but being a hypocrite I had yet formulated the exact problem. So glad to come across...
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Something to think about trying for your next project?
I came across this a while ago and it has been sitting waiting to be blogged, simply: UBC student writes 52,438 word architecture dissertation with no punctuation — not everyone loved itDespite the...
View ArticleCapitalising your Divine Pronouns (or not)
So just had to explain this to someone and came a across a nice little blog post on the subject from a new to me blog from a chap with a very impressive beard.So1. There is no grammatical convention...
View ArticleForgiveness, Jacob and Systems Theory
So today I gave a little paper at a conference on forgiveness. It was fun.The rough manuscript is here.The power point is here.Unfortunately the witty one liners and whiteboard genogram were not...
View ArticleIs God angry with me?
Some chap over at the NZ Baptist Magazine is pontificating on the subject of God's anger, why not head on over and tell him what you think of his incessant whining?(Seriously, it makes me look good if...
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Singing The Songs of Zion in a Foreign Land
Poor Jeremy Corbyn, so misunderstood and so much hysteria.pic from hereSo, over in the UK, a chap who doesn't believe in God and doesn't believe in the monarchy, and this is a matter of public...
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A Rather Handy Disagreement Heirarchy
Way back in 2008 Paul Graham suggests up with a heirarchy of types of disagreement. Now you can see this represented with a handy graphic (which unfortunately doesn't go all the way to the top level -...
View ArticleIt's Tense Being a Pastor-Scholar
Blogger Andrew Wilsonwrites for CT on the tensions that pastor-scholars face.The specialist - generalist tensionThe practical - theoretical tensionThe university - church tensionThe novelty - fidelity...
View ArticleRauser on Heaven
Here's a nice video of Randal Rauser explaining how so many Christians get the Biblical teaching on Heaven wrong and why it matters. Enjoy :-)
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Logical Fallacies and the Fallacy Fallacy
Yes I know that is a lot of fallacies in the title. I came across this little picture on FB this morning.Which I thought was worth keeping as a nice summary of the main logical fallacies, but then I...
View ArticleThe Search for the Historical Christmas Story
Is there a better way between the dismissive arrogance of the sceptics and the naive fideism of the fundamentalist? I hope so.My pet litmus test for a true interest in the historical Christmas (rather...
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