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I am the kind of nerd who aspires to listen to three sermons every week. I hear my own minister preach on Sundays and when I am blessed with mp3 player time I also listen to whatever gruel Trevor Morrow served up that week in Lucan. But the only person who can compete in terms [...]

Readership Consultation

Would the four people who still log in mind if I just turned Zoomtard into a receptacle of barely disguised college notes reformatted so that you guys could at least follow them, since my current life consists of nothing more than college, work and sleeping. There have been few days in the last six weeks [...]

If Jesus is inagurated as King, even though his Kingdom has not yet fully come, then is the church like the civil service of heaven getting ready for a new leadership?
If that analogy has any merit, surely it’s the most depressing ever conceived?
Your Correspondent, Wound up on the wrong end of a gun

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 [...]

Another Step Towards Maturity

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 [...]

Is There A Case For Para-Church?

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, [...]

One Wishes This Is A Parody?

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 [...]

One Line Review: Youth In Revolt

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 [...]




 

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