I recently gave a talk to Cardiff University’s Staff and Postgraduate Christian Fellowship (SPGCF) on Christianity and Postmodernism. I’m now going to adapt that talk into a series of blog posts, to go up over the next couple of weeks. Many Christians think Postmodernism = relativism = bad! Titles such as The Truth Wars, The […]
The current series of Doctor Who is self-consciously styling itself as a “dark fairytale”, even to the point of having characters describe it as such within the stories. Terry Pratchett recently criticised Doctor Who as not being science fiction. This got me thinking – is it possible to tell a story that is both fairy […]
I’ve just finished watching the election debate between David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Gordon Brown, and I just want to get down some thoughts before reading the inevitable frenzy of analysis and having my impressions influenced by all the discussion. The first question is, did it work as a debate? The discussion wasn’t as in-depth […]
I’m always excited to see Christians engaging with contemporary issues, so I was very pleased to see that Evangelical Alliance Wales are launching the Cymru Institute for Contemporary Christianity (CICC for short – “Cymru” means “Wales” in Welsh, by the way). Kicking off CICC, a series of events was held across Wales, including a Question […]
This is just to say that I haven’t forgotten about my blog, despite the recent lack of blog posts. There are a number of reasons for this, the main two being a new job that has been keeping me a bit busier over the last few months, and that I’ve been knuckling down to work […]
I’ve been to the English L’Abri community a few times, and L’Abri has really helped me in thinking through different aspects of my faith. Back at their film festival in 2008, I heard that they were planning to put their vast library of talks online soon. Over a year later, the L’Abri Ideas Library is […]
I’ve not updated my blog in quite a while. I’ve been busy starting a new job, working on some writing projects, and still settling into married life, trying to get the hang of managing all the exciting reponsibilities of adulthood, such as paying bills on time. Getting used to the relentless routine of working life […]
Is there such thing as a Biblical epistemology (theory of knowledge)? Well, there’s no one definitive Biblical theory of knowledge that Christians would all agree on – but getting Christians to all agree on anything is very difficult, to put it mildly! But I think that what the Bible teaches about God, the world, reality […]
It’s now just over five years since I first arrived in Cardiff , and since I started keeping this blog. That’s a big chunk of my life, and over that time I’ve grown and changed a lot, leaving home and becoming independent of my parents, studying for my degree, starting my working life, and most […]
Some of the books I’m reading or have read in the last few months: Boundaries – Cloud & Townsend – generally very helpful, a few reservations Starcross – Philip Reeve – just riproaringly good fun Fever Crumb – Philip Reeve – mostly good, but feels incomplete Perelandra – C S Lewis – brilliant, an all-time […]
