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Continue reading →: Are some Wiccan rituals not so Pagan?There are a couple of interesting posts on the Christian origins of Wiccan rituals over at Pantheon. See Is Wicca a Christian Heresy? and The Watchtowers and Abrahamic Wicca. I’m glad this is coming from a member of the Pagan community. It echos my own surprise upon first reading the…
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Continue reading →: Dance in the BibleIs dance something you associate with the God of the apostles and the prophets? Christianity has a reputation for calm and conformity that at times strikes me as quite incongruent with the ancient accounts we supposedly hold in high esteme. There are numberous examples but just consider these two: Dancing…
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Continue reading →: Bearing the Cross: Breaking the Cycle Of Violence“The gospel says that the cycle of violence, in which each new act of vengeance elicits a new act of vengeance in return, has been broken in the cross. Jesus absorbed all the violence and hatred the world could hurl at him and bore it without retaliation or bitterness. He…
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Continue reading →: Why public schools need public Christian supportIf the media were your sole source of information you could be forgiven for thinking Christians universally favour private schools over public schools. Yet, it’s a fact that many Christians send their children to public schools and are quite happy with the education they receive there. So, what’s the other…
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Continue reading →: Was YHWH A Patriot?After the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, “The LORD has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is going to drive…
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Continue reading →: Reasonable Faith versus Blind Faith“Trust is not ‘blind faith’. Trust comes over time, and is built up as people show that they can be relied on. And so, if we trust someone, we have some kind of evidence that they can be relied on. It’s no different with God. God has shown throughout history…
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Continue reading →: Do you think this FAILS the “Baby” test????!Many of my friends will be familiar with my “Baby Test” for Christian worship music. It was inspired by the Southpark episode “Faith + 1” where Catman puts together a Christian worship band to milk the Christian music market on the premise that all you really had to do was…
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Continue reading →: Justification has a horizontal dimension.Michael Bird has posted a great summary of the “new perspective on Paul” over at Euangelion (see part 1 and part 2), but the new perspective I personally find most significant is this: Justification has a horizontal dimension. Justification is clearly vertical and declares one’s right status/standing before God (e.g.,…
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Continue reading →: Thou Shalt Not ShareWhat happens when the definition of theft is expanded to include unauthorized sharing? It seems we’ve entered a brave new world where sharing between family and friends is potentially an illegal activity. We no longer own things, to do with as we wish, we just have conditional access. On one…
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Continue reading →: What fundamentalists won’t tell youWe’ve all heard the fundamentalists trying to seize the high ground of biblical literalism. What this rhetoric often masks however are two simple truths: (1) that the Old Testament and New Testament differ from each other in important respects, so consequently (2) there is a trade off between biblical literalism…
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