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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

Good Friday: A face-off with anxiety at the edge of the ocean

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Today, I walked alone to the edge of the ocean, to confront my cross. It’s Good Friday, after […]

April 19, 2019 Literature, Theology, Writing

Mud pies in the slums: The Wait of Glory

C.S. Lewis was wrong, I reckon. In The Weight of Glory he famously says that we satisfy ourselves […]

April 12, 2019 Epistemology, Love, Theology, Uncategorized, Writing

Love to know: A parable

So I’m sitting in this cafe and the coffee arrives and it’s kinda how I like it, but […]

April 6, 2019 Epistemology, Love, Philosophy, Poetry, Random, Relationship, Theology, 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

Stuff me: Mind your language

I have been swearing a bit lately, particularly in my written work. I suppose I should stop. There […]

March 21, 2019 Humour, Writing

Shut up and listen: a ‘Christian’ response

What’s an appropriate ‘Christian’ response to the white supremacist attack on the mosques in Christchurch on Friday — I […]

March 17, 2019 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

Separation anxiety: the darkest of times

When I left home to get married at the age of 20 turning 21, my Dad sat in […]

March 7, 2019 Church, Epistemology, Literature, Relationship, Theology, Writing

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