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If God didn’t exist we’d have to invent Him. But if He did exist, we’d still invent atheism.
Your Correspondent, Don’t listen to him, he has 80’s hair

Love is not blind; that’s the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound, the less it is blind.
Your Correspondent, Suspects it might be all about love, properly understood

1. One movie that made you laugh
The Quest For The Holy Grail
2. One movie that made you cry
Dancer In The Dark
3. One movie you loved when you were a child
Jurassic Park
4. One movie you’ve seen more than once
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
5. One movie you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it
I am never embarrassed to [...]

So although one appreciates the gushing praise offered by Mr. Williamson over at Van Peebles Land about your intrepid Zoomtard’s return, the suspicion grows that they are adding something to the water in Wales. How can you give such props to your homeboy Zoomy but forget about the blog I wish I could write: Something [...]

Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip have that great song Letter From God To Man that brilliantly samples Planet Telex. And sure it degrades into silly gnosticism at the end but its a great song. I don’t have to run everything through the doctrine-scanner before I enjoy it, do I?
I’d hate to have to [...]

Last week the citizenry of Maynooth enjoyed the learned teachings of Prof. Miroslav Volf, as reported by your able blogger, Zoomtard. Volf is an acclaimed theologian, who grew up a Croatian Christian under Communism, is a Pentecostal among the evangelicals, an evangelical among mainline Protestants and a writer who straddles all kinds of categories that [...]

I went to see Iron and Wine last night in the Olympia. I am not sure if I was a muso enough to enjoy it really. Through the whole gig Sam Beam, who it seems is Iron and Wine, even though it looked like there were eight people on stage, said about two words. “Hello”. [...]

At the Michael Devlin lecture last night we enjoyed a fantastic lecture by Miroslav Volf about the role of memory in reconciliation, the right attitude to the Other and a couple of cool anecdotes about Jurgen Moltmann, his doctoral supervisor. It was a great end to an interesting day. The Irish Centre for Faith and [...]

I had the pleasure of attending a Dan Le Sac -vs- Scroobius Pip gig last night. Most of you have heard their astoundingly successful singles Thou Shalt Always and Letter From God and to be honest, we were going along because well, we wanted to hear them live.
But they are really freaking good. The [...]

As all the old Zoomtard readers know, I have a few recurring intellectual heroes- people who have had an indelible impact on my thinking and helped shape the world as I see it. Bonhoeffer, Barth, Lewis, Wright. These are some of the Christian thinkers that did all the hard work for me. If I stand [...]