Zoomtard

Marilynne Robinson’s quest to wake us up to the fact that Jean Cauvin is the lost prophet civilization needs to listen to continues in Christianity Today. Because even evangelical Christians have colluded in the cover-up on the father of Presbyterianism:
Perception is at the center of Calvin’s theology… It is as if we were to find [...]

I used to think that my worst nightmare would be waking up as church worker one morning and realising I no longer believe in Jesus but being trapped in a job out of pragmatic concerns.
Now I realise an even worse tragedy would be to wake up and realise I do believe in Jesus but am [...]

This post is inspired by my dear friend Transfarmer.
Para-church organizations are Christian organizations (commonly Protestant) which work outside of and across denominations to engage in mission.
In 1914, Henry Ford was able to produce a Model T in 93 minutes. That year, his company made more automobiles than every other manufacturer in America combined. The [...]

A Million Miles In A Thousand Miles is Don Miller’s new book. Miller is that Christian writer I am never ashamed to give to even my most cynical of friends. He has a way with words and a humility about his faith that make his books very very attractive. But as the years go by, [...]

Well wish harder! Wayne Grudem, the American Baptist theologian who is famous for writing a lovely and suitably shallow systematic theology for beginners and for conflating conservative American politics with evangelical faith, (who thinks it is a theologian’s job to publicly endorse a Presidential candidate?) is publishing a book called, wait for it, Politics [...]

With Greystones Presbyterian Minister David Montgomery commenting on some posts made back in December (in the idyllic pre-Fall days), I realised that there might be a bit more to be said about the EAI statement on the proposed civil union legislation.
A friend in Cork asked me about an aspect of civil union that she [...]

A smart, ambitious movie that aims to show, I mean really put it right out there, how insane our ideas as represented in stereotypical teen comedies of young love and indeed young life actually are but kind of forgets to make us laugh enough.
Your Correspondent, Instead of building houses, he plans to build land, on [...]

Gerhard Lohfink’s old classic “Jesus and Community” is a core text for a course I am doing called “Understanding The Church and Mary As Its Model”. You don’t get the good stuff like that in a Presbyterian seminary.

He shows us how the opening two lines of the Our Father:
Father, hallowed be your name,
your Kingdom come.
take [...]

Eoin O’Mahony has a blog that is in my “primary reading” folder on Google Reader. That’s like Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin combining to give you a medal. It is that big an honour round at the old Cardboard Mansion. Maybe 53 Degrees, the sketchpad for his PhD is only interesting to sociology nerds but [...]

… Zoomtard returns.
On December 20th I broke my left scaphoid bone while running. On December 24th I devastated my right radius bone bringing a wheelie-bin in from the kerb. After reconstructive surgeries on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I returned home to recuperate. I couldn’t shave. I couldn’t shower or bathe without help. Nor [...]