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Continue reading →: What if church was more intuitive friendly?Sociologists have frequently observed that, for post-moderns, self identity is actively constructed and cultural association is actively chosen. That is, for post-moderns, identity and association are more matters of taste than tradition. Few, however, have taken the next step and asked: where do these differences in taste come from? So…
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Continue reading →: Aboriginal Christian Art from Western AustraliaThis picture comes from Western Australia, courtesy of a friend of mine. He writes: “Hi Matt, Was thinking of you. We were in W.A 2 weeks ago and went to New Norcia. Was profoundly impressed in that in the 19thc they genuinely respected the Aboriginals and genuinely tried to incarnate…
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Continue reading →: Sacred Shit: Witnessing the Cow Dung PujaI have encountered all sorts of strange rituals in my encounters with other religions. But possibly the strangest I have ever personally witnessed was cow dung puja. It was many years ago in Darling Harbour, at one of the seasonal Mind Body Spirit Festivals. Earlier that day I had struck…
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Continue reading →: Nothing really mattersMy view on physics: God and the foundation of reality are equivalent. EveryTHING is created from noTHING and noTHING is self existent.
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Continue reading →: How can Christian views of the State be so different?The following comments emerged out of a conversation with a friend over the ethics of war and the extent to which churches are biblically (and thus morally) obligated to support the militaristic function of the state. In essence, my friend believes Romans 13 legitimises the violent defence of the state…
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Continue reading →: Double standards in Christian ethicsHomosexuality is difficult to reconcile with the Bible. But so is stone throwing at homosexuals. Yet we don’t consider unrepentant stone throwers unfit for leadership. Why the double standard? Why isn’t is either or neither? Just asking.
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Continue reading →: Hopi Madonna
An image of Mary, the mother of Jesus, by Father John Giuliani. It is entitled “Hopi Madonna”
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Continue reading →: A more natural way of thinking about the supernaturalSome weeks ago I asked, is there anything more supernatural than love? This week I ask, what if we thought of the supernatural, not in terms of the anti-natural, but in terms of the meta-natural? For is not God more natural than nature, more universal than the universe? I…
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Continue reading →: Western Buddha, Eastern JesusMore and more I find language of “eastern religion” and “western religion” superficial and outmoded, if not down right ignorant and misleading. For starters, both Christianity and Buddhism are “world religions” that transcended their ancestral homes millennia ago. But more, their demographic centres of gravity are shifting, to the point where…
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Continue reading →: Have we understood omnipotence correctly?I am intrigued about the assumptions that often seem to be lurking behind discussions about God’s power (omnipotence = all powerful) and God’s responsibility for the evils in this world (theodicy). There is a vast difference between enforcement (power taking) and empowerment (power giving). From what I understand of God…
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