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Continue reading →: Christmas BuddhaI just thought I’d share this photo from a Christmas party with the extended family last weekend. They were a bit short on mangers and reindeers obviously. I’m not sure who co-opted the Enlightened One for decorative purposes but in any case the Buddha seemed oblivious to the festivities. I…
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Continue reading →: Is there a “Christian vote” in Australia?If you’re interested in the interface between politics and religion in highly secular cultures then, whatever your religious or irreligious leanings, I strongly encourage you to click through and read the essay “God Under Gillard: Religion and Politics in Australia” by Marrion Maddox on the ABC Religion and Ethics website.…
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Continue reading →: The Messiah Is One of YouTeaching can take many forms. In eastern religions like Buddhism and Taoism it often comes in story form. But story based teaching is not foreign to Christianity either, not when you stop to think about it. Indeed, Jesus was a master of the art. Here’s a story I came across…
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Continue reading →: Unsocial NetworkingI find myself often lamenting the dearth of deep conversation on the web. In a world where we are more connected than ever, it’s ironic that social networking seems to have made the web a lot less social. The fast pace, the constant stream of notifications, and the bite-sized interactions…
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Continue reading →: The Greed CreedI don’t know who the original author of this creed was but here’s a reworking of Colossians 2:15 that I would add, “And having disarmed the market forces and financial authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”
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Continue reading →: Aboriginal Art: Jesus and AdamThis example of Aboriginal Christian art is something I ripped out of a magazine eight or more years ago, or thereabouts, only to gather dust in my old art folders for years, largely forgotten. I suspect it may be the first piece of Aboriginal Christian art I ever collected. Unfortunately,…
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Continue reading →: Jacob’s Ladder: A Painting by William Blake“Jacob’s Ladder” by William Blake. It’s inspired by Genesis 28:10-16 which reads: Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down…
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Continue reading →: What is an Anabaptist Christian?Recognising that many who stumble across this website are unfamiliar with anabaptist Christianity, I find a word or two of explaination is helpful every now and then. With this in mind I would like to draw attention to a simple sketch of anabaptist Christianity drawn from the appendix of Palmer…
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Continue reading →: Can “just wars” be found in the Old Testament?In his article, “War and the Old Testament: A Proposal“, Ted Grimsrud makes the astute observation that “The violence in the Old Testament creates problems for all Christians”, not just pacifict Christians, as “The OT is not about ‘just wars’ in the sense that the western moral tradition has used…
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Continue reading →: 2 year old run over … and people walk on byA two year old is hit by a van and left to die on the street. What happens next? Eighteen people walk by the bleeding child who is struggling for every breath. She gets run over a second time. She’s not nameless. Her name is Yueyue. It reminds me of…
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