Archive for January, 2008
The Metaphor of “Kingdom”
I am currently re-reading Brian D. McLaren’s “The Secret Message of Jesus” and want to quote verbatim some of his thoughts which tie in very closely, but from a slightly different perspective, with the post I wrote a while back entitled “Intelligent Design”. In that post I questioned the mechanistic metaphor behind and inferred by [...]
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Relativity
I am an out and out relativist. I am absolutely convinced that I cannot be certain about anything – so much so, I must confess, I could be wrong about this one thing too!
I am convinced of our situatedness, that all the knowledge we have of our world and reality can only really be expressed [...]
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The New Testament Vice Lists
I am going to pick up in future posts where I left off, hope that is OK. Obviously though, in the previous six months, life has moved on and shaped me accordingly and new content will be a reflection of that too.
In this post I want to continue with my series on homosexuality. I want [...]
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Gallery shocks with explicit plaster Christ
The Times online reports on an exhibition by the Chinese born artist Terrence Koh. Apparently the exhibition includes and 18in statue of Christ with an erect penis.
Filed in: Everything Random
A New Year’s Resolution
My New Year’s resolution is to start blogging again. It’s funny, you let a week or two slip, then it becomes a month and before you know it, you have not written anything for almost half a year! Well – and I hope I do not regret putting this into print – I am going [...]
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