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Elliptical faith: Religion in the dots and thin spaces

On Saturdays, I do a few hours of subediting work on the News Corp Australia metro newspapers, such […]

September 14, 2020 Journalism, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

COVID-19: Should we be fearful of the coming dystopia?

My daughter (the second of four) asked me today whether I was afraid—of the coronavirus and the devastating […]

March 16, 2020 Epistemology, health, Journalism, Love, Opinion, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing

Truth in a post-apocalyptic world (1/5)

Some (slightly revised) thinking from old lecture notes on epistemology in the post-9/11 world, as we approach the end of another decade. (1/5)

November 28, 2019 Bible, Epistemology, Love, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Theology, Writing

When God took Job’s teeth: Tommy Tiernan tells a Bible story

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No one — NO ONE — tells Bible stories like Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan. That he tells Bible stories at […]

May 7, 2019 Bible, Epistemology, Humour, Literature, Theology, Writing

Easter Sunday: We don’t want no resurrection

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My favourite resurrection scene is the one in Scorsese’s movie The Last Temptation of Christ, when Jesus calls […]

April 21, 2019 Church, Epistemology, Love, Preaching, Relationship, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

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

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

The Beautiful Risk: Self-other encounter

One of the best descriptions of relational encounter you will read, by therapist James H. Olthuis, in The […]

February 5, 2019 Counselling, Epistemology, Love, Philosophy, Quotes, Relationship, Theology, Writing

World cries out for cruciform love: a dialogue with Brad Jersak

I had a dialogue today with Canadian author and theologian Brad Jersak about the death of American evangelicalism, […]

July 19, 2018 Theology
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