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Continue reading →: The Devil is in the Policy DetailsI have to say, I see Australia’s current policy on asylum seekers as nothing short of evil. We’ve given in to the temptation of short term poll gains and become enslaved to fear based politics.
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Continue reading →: Adam and Eve tempted by the Ring of SauronSo many people misunderstand the Two Trees in the Genesis story that I thought I would give it some mythological reworking, Lord of the Rings style, to illustrate the nature of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil more clearly for people who know movies well, but bibles not so much.…
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Continue reading →: What is the difference between moral relativism and moral subjectivism?Continuing on from my comments on relativity theology, I have a few words to say on relativism and subjectivism in Christian morality, hopefully with a bit more nuance. Firstly, I have come to see I should more carefully distinguish between moral absolutism vs moral relativism on the one hand and…
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Continue reading →: Three Wise Men, Doctor Who StyleI have always thought it would be interesting to do a nativity scene with different incarnations of the Doctor as the Magi. Well, I finally got around to doing it!
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Continue reading →: Finding Strenth in GodThis pictures is called “Strong in the LORD in the Power of His Might”. I would love to know who the artist is as, if you look carefully, it is a interesting Christian interpretation of one of the tarot arcana.
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Continue reading →: Universalist HeavenIn a funny sort of way I find Christian Universalism just as ideologically coercive as Christian Theocracy. For both deny people the right to say, “I am not a Christian, not even an unconscious one!” They both insist, “You’re part of the Kingdom of God mate, whether you like it or not!” Yet…
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Continue reading →: Relativity TheologyI was recently accused of being a closet objectivist by a conservative Christian, when I suggested that I saw all morality as relative to Jesus. This was my response: It’s no semantic twist. I reject objectivism. Christian morals are not objective in their own right, independant of Christ, such they…
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Continue reading →: How God Became KingHave you ever though much about the relationship between the Creeds and the Canon? Here are a few comments I recorded for further contemplating while reading “How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels” by N. T. Wright: [The gospels] are telling a story, a story that is…
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Continue reading →: John Keenan on The Emptiness of ChristSome reflections by John P. Keenan on The Emptiness of Christ : The scriptural words of and about Jesus likewise describe him as empty of essence. [The] function of doctrine in Mahayana theology is not to communicate a body of information about God, but to engender a sense of the presence of God beyond…
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Continue reading →: Christian Meditation by Hans Urs von BalthasarSome observations on Christian Meditation by Hans Urs von Balthasar: Here Jesus works not only by speaking but also by being silent, and anyone who follows him in this can learn from his silence, for it is a meaningful silence, like God’s. [This] does not at all constitute a limitation…
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