The Christian twechodome is rife with reports of Rob Bell’s finally coming out as a universalist. I’m not sure. Here’s the promo video for his latest book, about which the controversy orbits: It’s a good promo video – raise the controversial question, hold off on the answer, let it hang. It’s the growtivational thing to [...]
Archive for February, 2011
FX & HUP
Friday, February 25th, 2011Josh Skeat has been running a series of articles on Fresh Expressions. In his latest he engages with Bruce Kaye engaging with a book which critiques Fresh Expressions as encapsulating the worst of the so-called “Homogeneous Unit Principle.” Fresh Expressions are conflated with sodalities that cannot encapsulate the healthy breadth of a modality (such as Parish). [...]
I want my flying car… on the moon
Friday, February 25th, 2011Discovery has just launched for the last time. I’m a space exploration tragic from way back. What is also tragic is that thirty years after it first flew the Space Shuttle is still the most advanced manned space transport the world has got – and it’s just about to finish. They’ll always be pragmatic arguments [...]
Twitter and Blood
Monday, February 21st, 2011Previously, when considering the impact of social networking in the current revolutionary atmosphere of the Middle East posed the question: “… when it comes to the toppling of regimes, will networked individuals that are able to “mix and match” their causes and “take a day off” remain committed when real blood is shed in the [...]
What next for a new Communion?
Sunday, February 20th, 2011A thoughtful piece at the Anglican Communion Institute by Dr. Philip Turner. He reflects my views in that he takes the breakdown of the Anglican Communion as a given. He also reflects my view that it is the revisionists who have done better, rhetorically, to couch their argument in terms of “gospel” (albeit a false [...]
Review: Surprised By Hope
Sunday, February 20th, 2011I used to think it was my own little heresy – that the gospel was all about the Lordship of Christ and the fulfillment of his Kingdom here on earth when he returns, more than any possibility of being raptured into an ethereal eternity. My “heresy” has found a harbour. Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope unpacks an [...]
Superseding Legal Marriage
Friday, February 18th, 2011An interesting snippet in a Guardian article talking about American evangelicals increasingly taking on some Jewish customs and liturgies including, in a wedding, “the joint signing of a document called a ketubah.” Here is another insight into the mind of this philosemitic bride. ‘”We wanted a permanent reminder of the covenant we made with God,” [...]
Pluralism in Public for the Discriminating Christian
Thursday, February 17th, 2011I was already thinking about this topic when a piece by David Marr in the Sydney Morning Herald (sub-headed “Australia’s religious organisations fight for the right to discriminate”) did the rounds of twitter, as did the news that the new Baillieu government in Victoria is going to reduce some of the anti-discrimination compliance burden on [...]
MJ on Lay Presidency
Thursday, February 10th, 2011Michael Jensen argues for “holding back” on the authorisation of Lay Presidency in the Diocese of Sydney. Theologically, he agrees with lay presidency. His call for restraint is based on practicalities, relationship and general good form. I agree with him.
