Theology
Marilynne Robinson: Pulitzer Prize-Winner who writes ‘Christianly’
Marilynne Robinson’s Lila by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | Oct 13 2014 Marilynne Robinson in 2012 Image: Christian Scott Heine Bell / Wikimedia Commons ¢â‚¬Å“If you could create a phenomenology of consciousness, some part of it would be the systematic falsification of the foundations of our culture. ¢â‚¬ After that sentence in literary-critic-ese, Novelist Marilynne Robinson […]
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
Preachers could learn from TED / TEDx talks. Their motto: ‘ideas-worth-spreading.’ The world’s leading ‘thinkers and doers’ – like Bill Gates and Richard Branson, and a few hundred others – speak for 18 minutes or less. The talks are then posted daily, free, on TED.com – or you can follow them on Twitter and Facebook. These speakers share their […]
Left Behind…
Warning: if you open the links mentioned in the ¢â‚¬Å“Sources ¢â‚¬ section at the end of this column, your agenda of other things to read may well be left behind. The ¢â‚¬Å“Sources ¢â‚¬ list just a few reviews out of many dealing with the film that opened over the weekend, Left Behind. I, for one, became […]
POT POURRI: worth pondering…
I’ll probably add a bunch of items-to-think-about regularly (from my reading/devotions etc.) A pot-pourri of items on this week’s pocket-list to ponder: Kierkegaard: Life has to be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards Yanis Varoufakis: A radical economist in the ’emperor has no clothes’ category. ‘The real purpose of right-wing politics is to […]
Acceptance, Repentance: subject/object relationships
If you put love-before-worth jmm into Google you’ll read three of my most controversial sermons! Excerpts: ~~ From a wedding homily at http://www.jmm.org.au/articles/33687.htm : 2. ACCEPTANCE. This is the basic idea in the Christian concept of ¢â‚¬Ëœgrace ¢â‚¬â„¢. I am loved by God before I change, before I ¢â‚¬Ëœdeserve ¢â‚¬â„¢ to be loved. This love-before-worth […]
DOUBT: is it good or bad for your faith?
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at St Paul’s Cathedral last year. Photo: Bloomberg London: The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, has disclosed that he questions whether God exists. Britain’s most senior churchman, who is effectively the leader of almost 80 million Anglicans worldwide, admitted that there are moments when he asks himself […]
Review: Ken Wilson, A Letter to My Congregation: An evangelical pastor’s path to embracing people who are gay, lesbian and transgender…
¢â‚¬Å“I found myself saying to pastors with growing conviction, ¢â‚¬Ëœthis issue is not going to be settled in the academy. This is ours to deal with and we can no longer avoid our responsibility ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ ¦ I am the pastor of Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor. And I realised that I had to face it squarely and […]
U.S. Christianity: ‘How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong.’
Bill McKibben: “The Christian paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong.” The following article came to my attention while viewing Bill Moyer’s interview with New York Times conservative columnist, Ross Douthat. http://billmoyers.com/segment/ross-douthat-on-modern-christian-heretics/ *** Excerpt: “Therein is the paradox. America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior.” […]
THEOLOGICAL LIBERALISM
(Notes for a ‘box’ in my forthcoming blog/book Questions & Responses) (Note: I ¢â‚¬â„¢m not an expert in Orthodox or Catholic theological spectrums, so will limit this discussion to the Protestant scene). Non-Catholic/Orthodox ¢â‚¬ËœChristians ¢â‚¬â„¢ can roughly be put into about ten theological categories. They are (from left to right): ¢â‚¬Ëœradical liberal ¢â‚¬â„¢ (eg. Cupitt), ¢â‚¬Ëœliberal ¢â‚¬â„¢ (Tillich, Robinson, Kung, Spong), […]
FUNDAMENTALISM
Mormon Teachers ¢â‚¬â„¢ College student: ¢â‚¬ËœWe Mormons believe that God is physical, like a giant male. ¢â‚¬â„¢ Me: ¢â‚¬ËœIs that general Mormon teaching? ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ËœI think so. But I also believe we can measure the size of God. ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ËœReally? How? ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ËœWell, one of the Hebrew prophets says God walks on the mountains. Figure out where those mountains […]
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