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Continue reading →: Resurrection by cloisteringResurrection by cloistering The artist writes: Scarred soul rises passion radiates once more redeemed Easter comes in many guises…
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Continue reading →: Young Men And Women Use Facebook DifferentlyA new study has reported some interesting distinctions among young Facebook users, suggesting women and men often use Facebook in different ways. “Women, when compared to men, are much more likely to use Facebook to communicate about or share content related to friends and family. Men, by contrast, are much more…
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Continue reading →: Legislating God in the Land of the FreeCritical Christianity comments on American Christianity: “To assume that this is God’s country is a fallacy. But to then assume that it is our Christian duty to attempt to legislate Christianity is to make God even smaller.”
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Continue reading →: Why we should listen to non-western voicesWhen postmodern references were all the rage some years back, where were all the African, Asian and South American voices? In his article “Why cultural theology is not relativistic” Allen Yeh writes: “Not only do non-Western perspectives give us insights into God that we in the West could never get…
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Continue reading →: Prayer over the yearsI’ve been consolidating and editing the prayer section on my blog and it’s been an interesting trip down memory lane. Clearly I lean towards meditative prayer, but there’s some interesting reflections on missional prayer and intercessory prayer as well. The most controversial article I ever wrote was on entranced prayer, which generated a huge amount of…
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Continue reading →: Australian multiculturalismYesterday we heard that “the AMP-NATSEM Income and Wealth Report shows Australia is one of the most multicultural nations in the world, second only to Luxembourg and tying with Switzerland. One-quarter of our population was born overseas, almost twice the proportion of the United States and more than twice that…
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Continue reading →: Christian Art: AboriginalThis painting, of the embrace of the cross, is by Gloria Leigh. I came across it in an ad for the NATSIEC Indigenous Theology and Spirituality Conference coming up in Baulkham Hills in March 21st – 25th 2011.
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Continue reading →: How stable is multi-religious society?Brambonius Cools commented on Facebook: ”I have read the entire Qur’an and can find no guidance in it on how Muslims should live as a minority in a society. I have read the entire New Testament and can find no guidance in it on how Christians should live as a…
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Continue reading →: A New Kind of Prosperity GospelIn an article entitled, A New Kind of Prosperity Gospel, Bruce Epperly writes: “While there is much to affirm about the relationship of positive thinking, visualization, and heart-felt faith with physical, mental, relational, and spiritual well-being, I believe there are serious problems with both the new age/new thought and Pentecostal…
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Continue reading →: Jesus and Buddha on HappinessI stumbled across an interesting comparison of Jesus and Buddha at the Desiring God blog. In commenting on Mark 10:21, where Jesus says “go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me”, Jon Bloom wrote: “Note that…
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