David Virtue reports on some movements in the legal action between the Anglican Church of Canada and four parishes in British Columbia that have realigned to ACNA. I think we should expect to see more of this sort of various-shades-of-grey result with no clear “winners.” Times of messiness ahead. “The 98 page decision is very [...]
Archive for November, 2009
What rights make sense?
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Moving on a bit in a current thread on intellectual property. So far, the aim of having this discussion is to cut across the conservative Christian tendency to be absolutist about copyright. The right (or not) to copy something, unlike real “ownership” and “theft” is not the domain of black and white morality. It can [...]
Audiences are Overrated
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Great news from news.com.au today. The signal to noise ratio on google is about to go up. Photo credit: http://www.sxc.hu/profile/hotblack
Proverbs 31
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009There is wisdom in this (from Acts 29): The message of Proverbs 31 is “Know your wife well.” I praise God for who my wife is. The depths of her insight and discernment always blows me away. She feels what God feels. And she has a holy fire. It is impossible to be complacent around [...]
The Manhattan Declaration
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009It’s been around since September 28, 2009 apparently but I’ve only recently been running into the Manhattan Declaration on a number of my feeds. It looks like a “stand up and be counted” form of activism expressing a view on what might be called the conservative Christian social agenda. This is how it describes itself: [...]
Pastor of Death
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009Excellent reflection (via Wayne Schuller): “This is the great privilege of pastoral ministry, to follow Jesus into the tombs that litter our world to announce the triumph of life.”
What is Ownable?
Friday, November 20th, 2009To continue a thread, and to overcome the character limit on comment posts. Here is my response to Andrew: The joys of blogging – to get intelligent pushback and the honing of thoughts. In the comments to a previous post we have run into semantics about what is theft. I have posited deprivation as a [...]
What Do You Fear?
Friday, November 20th, 2009Wow. From ABC’s HungryBeast show: http://hungrybeast.abc.net.au/stories/voxpop-what-do-you-fear (H/T Mikey)
