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Continue reading →: John Chrysostom on the Living CreationI have been researching what the church fathers had to say on God’s creation and God’s creatures. Here are a few words from John Chrysostom (347 – 407): “The saints are exceedingly loving and gentle to mankind, and even to the beasts… Surely, we ought to show them great kindness…
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Continue reading →: The Jesus of the left and of the rightI have previously suggested that the Christological controversies of the past live on in modern politics, that many right-leaning Christians seem to have Docetic tendencies (emphasizing the divinity of Jesus at times to the neglect of his humanity), whilst many left leaning Christians seem to have Arian tendencies (emphasizing the…
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Continue reading →: On the Creation of the World (Victorinus)Victorinus of Pettau was an Early Christian writer who flourished around 270 AD, and who was martyred during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian around 303 or 304 AD. In his commentary, On the Creation of the World, he observes a number of fourfold correspondences in relation to the created order:…
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Continue reading →: Happy Climate Change ChristmasHappy Climate Change Christmas by Reg Mombassa
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Continue reading →: Little Drummer GirlWhile a lot of Christian art you may be familiar with features angels as white and male, Christian art does exist that features angels as black and female. Why not I say. Scripture never describes the skin colour of angels. Nor does it explicitly exclude the possibility of angels appearing…
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Continue reading →: A long time ago in a manger far, far awayA long time ago in a manger far, far away … Star of Jacob
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Continue reading →: Christian symbols read as systems of domination and of liberationI was delving deeper into the anxious masculinity of white evangelicalism when I came across this comment by Rosemary Radford Reuther: “The oppressive patterns in Christianity towards women and other subjugated people do not come from specific doctrines, but from a patriarchal and hierarchical reading of the system of Christian…
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Continue reading →: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker JesusIn honour of the release of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, here is a collection of religiously themed Star Wars fan art. You’ll note a lot of the images feature either Anakin Skywalker (aka Darth Vader) or Luke Skywalker as a Jesus-like figure, though Yoda, Princess Leia,…
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Continue reading →: Aboriginal NativityThis colourful nativity scene is from a Christmas Card available from the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry (ACM).
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Continue reading →: Calvinist SantaEveryone is on the naughty list for Calvinist Santa.
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