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What is trinity and why does it matter?

By Caleb | May 19, 2008

Yesterday was Trinity Sunday, and since I’ve recently been doing a lot of thinking trying to understand the trinity better, I agreed to do a short talk on trinity for the evening communion service in church at Mack. So with some trepidition at tackling such a topic as trinity, but with plenty of prayer, and […]

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An Evangelical Manifesto

By Caleb | May 8, 2008

A group of American Evangelical Christians have published An Evangelical Manifesto, which makes excellent reading. It seeks to express what it means to be Evangelical, rescuing it from both conservative fundamentalism and liberal revisionism. I’ve often wondered whether the word “evangelical” has gone the way of “fundamentalist”, with the popular derogatory meaning of “right-wing bigot” […]

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Do all religions worship the same God?

By Caleb | April 25, 2008

I’ve been discussing this question recently on Ship of Fools, and also just read a very good blog post on the subject on the Christ the Truth blog. A popular illustration is a group of blind people all trying to describe an elephant – one feels its trunk and thinks it’s a snake, one feels […]

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Thoughts on masculinity and femininity

By Caleb | April 18, 2008

I’ve always been a bit bemused and sceptical about the twin ideas of “masculinity” and “femininity”. For a long time, it just seemed like so many gender stereotypes: Real Men go out into the wilderness to hunt bear with pointy stick; Ladies, on the other hand, like flowers, the colour pink, and fluffy things. And […]

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Wrestling with Elvis

By Caleb | April 15, 2008

In the Mack student group, we’re going to be discussing Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, subtitled “Repainting the Christian Faith”. Some of it is very, very good. Some of it is pretty bad. A lot of it just seems confused, though it raises some good questions. All this makes it ideal for a group of […]

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Doctor Who: Partners in Crime Review

By Caleb | April 7, 2008

Updated again: My podcast commentary with my friend Peter on Partners in Crime is now online. Give it a listen! Updated: My review of Partners in Crime, the Doctor Who series premiere, is in today’s Western Mail, and also available to read on their website. They’ve edited it down a bit, so here’s the uncut […]

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Zimbabwe elections

By Caleb | April 7, 2008

One of the items in the news recently that I’ve been particularly interested in is the elections in Zimbabwe. Back home in North Wales, I know a family through church who fled the country because of the troubles there, and so it’s recent woes have all the more immediacy for me knowing some of those […]

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