http://zoomtard.furiousthinking.org Delusions of Adequacy Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:24:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://zoomtard.furiousthinking.org/2010/03/08/readership-consultation/ 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 ... http://zoomtard.furiousthinking.org/2010/03/05/while-waiting-for-the-printer-technician/ 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 ... http://zoomtard.furiousthinking.org/2010/02/27/the-exhilarating-encounter-with-the-freedom-and-mystery-of-god/ 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 ... http://zoomtard.furiousthinking.org/2010/02/24/another-step-towards-maturity/ 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 ... http://zoomtard.furiousthinking.org/2010/02/23/is-there-a-case-for-para-church/ 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 ... http://zoomtard.furiousthinking.org/2010/02/22/one-quote-review-a-million-miles-in-a-thousand-miles/ 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 ... http://zoomtard.furiousthinking.org/2010/02/20/one-wishes-this-is-a-parody/ 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 ... http://zoomtard.furiousthinking.org/2010/02/19/is-there-anything-more-gay-than-a-christian-writing-about-gay-civil-union/ 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 ... http://zoomtard.furiousthinking.org/2010/02/17/one-line-review-youth-in-revolt/ 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 ... http://zoomtard.furiousthinking.org/2010/02/16/things-we-know-off-by-heart-that-aim-for-your-heart/