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Category Archive: Love

Losing my religion: Why I am NOT a Christian writer

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The first time I was told I wasn’t a Christian because of something I’d written was after the […]

March 29, 2019 Church, Epistemology, Journalism, Literature, Love, Theology, Writing

Immerse your soul in love: a manifesto

Immerse your soul in love, sings Thom Yorke at the end of the song Street Spirit (Fade Out). […]

March 14, 2019 Books, Church, Counselling, Epistemology, Love, Philosophy, Poetry, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

Coffee and cigarettes: A captured moment

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A kiss, but not a kiss A moment of connection, and also contempt. Those eyes, dark and foreboding, […]

March 1, 2019 Humour, Journalism, Literature, Love, Movies, Photos, Poetry, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing

What’s love got to do with it: Theology and its defences against the dark arts

Towards the end of my very brief career as a theologian in a conservative, fundamentalist, NZ theological college, […]

February 26, 2019 Church, Epistemology, Literature, Love, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

Three words: Faith. Hope. Love.

  Faith is about the story in which our understanding of self and others is embedded. It’s about […]

February 22, 2019 Church, Epistemology, Love, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

Darth Vader and the problem of evil: The worst sermon ever preached

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Some moments are so embarrassing, so cringeworthy, so regrettable, they deserve to be canonised. If it’s true that […]

February 15, 2019 Church, Humour, Love, Preaching, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

Assisted suicide: a Valentine’s Day poem about love

  No need to load the bullet Or knot the rope I’m gone already If I found knowing, […]

February 14, 2019 Epistemology, Literature, Love, Poetry, Relationship, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

A Queen story: You buggers can sing harder than I can

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Bohemian Rhapsody was the first song I remember being aware of as a kid. I have a clear […]

February 13, 2019 Humour, Love, Music, Vinyl, Writing

Red nails: a poem

I saw a woman removing 
her nail polish
by Doctor’s orders
three days out from the knife.

And as the last of it
was wiped away, I saw
her eyes, all red and glistening.
Funny how a simple swipe
can remove so much.

February 12, 2019 Literature, Love, Poetry, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing

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