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Continue reading →: Priests and Prostitues Brawl in full swing in ParramattaIn an article entitled, When Sleaze and God Collide, the Parramatta Advertiser this week reported, “Brothels and places of worship developments are now on Parramatta Council’s hit-list after Monday night’s amazing council meeting … To some councillors, both houses of ill-repute and future houses of God fall into the same…
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Continue reading →: How to practice fellowship more faithfullyHere’s some preliminary thoughts of mine about fellowship ministry and how we may practice it more faithfully. Drop the narcisism To practice fellowship more faithfully, we need to fix our eyes firmly God, the object of our faith. A fellowship ministry that focusses on others (the horizontal dimension of ministry)…
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Continue reading →: Two approaches to Christian mysticismIn correspondence to a colleague, I recently suggested that “…there are some very distinct differences between (1) Christians exploring mysticism for the first time and (2) mystics exploring Christianity for the first time. One of my criticisms of Emergent was that they largely failed to recognise this, believing themselves to be catering…
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Continue reading →: Footprints … with a Jedi spinAs you may know, Hallmark Card Christianity brings out my mischievous side. This Footprints poem vs Star Wars image comes, I think, from this guy. For the uninitiated the original poem goes like this: One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with…
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Continue reading →: Stand Firm: The Call to Endurance in the New TestamentIn my article on the Two Streams of Civil Religion, I wrote, “Our task is not to fight or take flight, but to endure and invite.” Have you noticed how often the theme of endurance surfaces throughout the New Testament? One of the key phrases urging believers to persevere is…
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Continue reading →: Ken Wilber inspired musingsDan Danforth’s comments have got me thinking about Ken Wilber’s “all level, all quadrant” view of human consciousness and behaviour. And although I don’t agree with Ken Wilbur on everything, and would assert that his “four quadrants” doesn’t mesh with Plato’s “the good, the beautiful and the true” nearly as…
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Continue reading →: How secular spirituality differs from the New Age MovementAs many of you would know, I have a particular interest in the New Age Movement from my many years of outreach at Mind Body Spirit Festivals and past involvement in the New Age Movement itself. So it probably comes as no surprise that I’m occasionally given to reflecting on…
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Continue reading →: Two Streams of Civil ReligionI’ve been rethinking my understanding of civil religion. Until now, I know I’ve tended to speak of civil religion, particularly American civil religion, like it’s some monolythic entity. But in thinking through some unrelated issues I had one of those “Doh!” moments when I realized how one dimensional that was.…
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Continue reading →: Tower of Babel
The book of Genesis recounts how they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
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Continue reading →: 4 verses where the New Testament gets figurative, literallyThis evening, I thought I’d stir up the age-old debate between fundamentalists and liberals on how to interpret. Here are four verses where a literal reading actually points us toward a figurative understanding: John 16:25: “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use…
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