Believe Differently

During an idle work conversation with a colleague the other day, we got onto the subject of “Intelligent Design”, and it provoked a thought  which made me realize just how loaded the “Design” word actually is. To speak of creation being “designed” is to invoke, almost subconsciously, a huge deterministic mechanistic metaphor for interpreting our reality – the [...]

A comment from Deb got me thinking about why I have put this site together. She cheekily suggested that I ought to get out more and that interacting with people on a website did not necessarily count! Well I agree, nothing substitutes for authentic Christian fellowship and this site is certainly not about doing that. Her comment [...]

Some people commented to me - not via the site which is a bit of a shame – that the blogs I linked in my post “What to do about church” were a little on the negative. I have to agree, but never-the-less, this meme - initated by Bill Kinnon of Achievable Ends - has created quite [...]

I have recently finished reading Richard Dawkins’ book ”The God Delusion” and it has prompted a few thoughts and stimulated a few ideas for future blogs including this one.1 I hope you can stand another Dawkins quote:
Christian theologians… could have devoted their pages and their sermons to extolling the sky splashed with stars, or mountains and green forests, seas [...]

Just a quick blog / advert to make you aware of a website / organization I really rate: www.ekklesia.co.uk
This is a great site / organization for obtaining intelligent Christian comment on news, current affairs and culture etc. They consider themselves to be neither liberal nor conservative and, I think, bring a refreshingly different angle to issues often caught up within the [...]

Sorry, but I could not resist. This really made me laugh. This is my first post under the category “Faith & Science”; I guess it should give you some insight into my perspective.
I particularly liked the strap-line: “It’s just like science… only better!”