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I am going to write a little bit about Christian Zionism (which is the [unwavering] support for theological reasons of the modern state of Israel) over the next few weeks. The Israeli budget was announced recently with another quarter billion for illegal settlements in Palestinian territory. The idea that Christians back this kind of thing [...]

So usually when I write a Zoomtard everyone is like, “Oh Kevin you are so smart and so wise and your rapidly greying hair makes you so attractive.” Or, “Kevin, you are the closest a theologian has ever come to reminding me of Shakira”. Last time me and the Pope had coffee he insisted I [...]

Jon Ronson is a deeply trustworthy journalist and documentary maker. His Secret Rulers Of The World is still one of the finest short series Guider and I have ever seen.
At the start of a new Channel 4 series on faith in the contemporary world, called Revelations, he looks at how the Alpha course plays out [...]

Regina Spektor’s album returns to the very cool heights of Soviet Kitsch. She actually pronounces the lyrics and puts the little girl voice that Feist made so cool away. And this song seems bound to be the theme tune inside my head for the next month.

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs [...]

Lest I become like Anna and just have a blog consisting of C.H. Spurgeon (a great preacher in London in the 1800s) quotes, I promise I’ll only do this once a year or so. But in an age when certain kinds of Christians make certain declarations about the imminent apocalypse, this quote is pertinent. Especially [...]

Previous to this entry, over the last week I have published about chick-flicks as emotional porn, topless waitresses (and implicitly the need for renewed feminism), the sense in which sexuality is a part of how we are human and on how crucial it is that our theology on sex would be sharp and accurate to [...]

Last week I was in Greystones teaching a bunch of students the book of Galatians.

I told them the story of Exodus. It is the story that shapes the Jewish mind. But it is also the story that echoes in the minds of the first Christians. The Jews were constituted as the slaves who were [...]

Last Wednesday, as my train pulled into Maynooth I finished the last page of A Prayer for Owen Meany. I can’t remember taking so long to savour a novel since I read Middlesex back in 2004. It is a magnificent and unmissable book that compels you to turn the page. In Owen I found a [...]

I am Irish. I work for the church. I live in a society that has been ravaged by the movement that I have committed my life to.
Yesterday I wrote about how sexuality informs what it means to be human in the light of Jesus.
Today I want to write about how crucial it is [...]

We were talking about St. Patrick’s Day parades not letting gay pride floats in. Conversation roamed around until my friend, the father of three young boys, lamented on how quickly his kids were sexualised. He wasn’t oh-woe-is-me-where-is-my-Daily-Mail conservative on it. He just was saddened that sexuality was a currency that his boys, still in primary [...]