Believe Differently

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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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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!”

Theology is not meant to be done in ivory towers by people who call themselves theologians. It is something to be worked out in the blood and guts of ordinary lives. I am convinced - for all sorts of reasons that I hope will come out in future blogs - that theology is something which should be contextualized [...]

I am in the process of trying to decide what to do about church. I currently attend what I would describe as a large London Evangelical Anglican church. More and more though, I feel I do not fit in. I am certainly on the periphery in terms of theology but recently I have found myself [...]

There is a popular platitude within Evangelical Christian circles which is framed as a prayer and goes along the lines:
More of you Lord, and less of me.
It seems to echo the words of John the Baptist and as such has an air of profundity. I no longer buy it though. The last time I heard [...]