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In How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart In Two Days, the acclaimed writer Philip K. Dick shared his truly surprising and weird views on theology. Dick, it turned out, was a Christian. But in a peculiar way that involved a belief inspired in part by Paramenides, in part by Heraclitus and in [...]

Walking in the Phoenix Park precipitates great thinkings. A defeated stag with half an antler sulked in the grass as I wondered aloud with G-Boss about how a name functions. We were hypothesising about babies, should the Holy Spirit ever prompt us to consummate our marriage, that is.
When in utero, we call people “The Baby”. [...]

Hauerwas defines nihilism:
Nihilism is the result of having so many compact discs from which to choose that, no matter which ones we choose, we are dissatisfied because we cannot be sure we have chosen what we really wanted.
Or as Douglas Coupland would put it, option paralysis:
The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
Central to [...]

I am addicted to caffeine and love beer. Whiskey defies explanation.
And yet I am not at all tempted by illicit substances. I am not a smoker of anything and am not in any way tempted by ecstasy or cocaine. I do not write this to set myself up for a fall, as it seems [...]

One of the toughest parts of the last year has been the spate of adolescent suicides in North Kildare. It has hit my town and my church community hard. We have spent much time in prayer for the families left behind and simply in pursuit of an explanation from God as to how suicide can [...]

I spent most of Kramer Vs Kramer working and when I finally got into the room my wife refused to talk to me because she thinks I spent too much time at my job but what’s a guy to do?!
Your Correspondent, Keeps his friends close but his office to-do list closer.

At the end of Shake Hands With The Devil, Dallaire asks us what we can do to ensure there is no more genocide like Rwanda in 1994. As he puts it, “In the last decades of the twentieth century, self interest, sovereignty and taking care of number one became the primary criteria for any serious [...]

I read Shake Hands With The Devil in tiny little pieces. It was so terrifying, I could not bear to chunk large bites out of it.
I have to admit, wife-unit grew tired of me crying before sleep.
It is the recounting of the ill-fated UN mission to Rwanda by its commander, Lt. General Roméo [...]

Over the last ten years it is estimated that the word postmodern was cited in approximately 71,348,241 sermons in the western world, which is more than “Kingdom of God”, “Mary” and “irony” put together. When you consider how often the word was used in homegroups, Christian books and seminars at conference, it surely outnumbers the [...]

I wrote much of what has appeared here weeks ago because I have spent most of August travelling and recovering from a year of church ministry and recuperating and sitting in our lovely library. Or at least I hope that is what August consists of because it hasn’t happened yet. I am writing this weeks [...]