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 […]
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 […]
Yesterday evening the topic at Mack was Worship: God Transforms, the penultimate in the Mapping the Infinite series. The idea of “worship” is one that seems very strange to most people today, conjuring up images of wearing strange clothes and funny hats, whilst singing songs so sycophantic that they’d put Uriah Heep to shame. And […]
Or, Is materialism an optical illusion? (Apologies for the delay in my blog posts on Creation and Evolution – my netbook was stolen when thieves broke into my house recently, which has set back some of my writing and blogging.) In this post, I’m going to compare a Christian worldview and a materialistic worldview, and […]
BBC2 tonight, 9pm: Trouble in Amish ParadiseAn extraordinary insight into the secretive world of the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. When two radical Amish men, Ephraim and Jesse Stoltzfus, start to question some of the most fundamental aspects of their Amish culture, they face excommunication from their church and total rejection by their […]
Luke Wood has an interesting blog post Should Students Tithe Their Student Loans? (HT: Dave Bish). He argues that they shouldn’t, and quotes Alan Preston saying: “Our advice to university students is consistent. Please do not give out of your student loan. It would seem silly to borrow money from the student loan company or […]
Fantasy writer L. B. Graham has some good comments on how Christian fiction is about mercy, not moralism (HT: Dave Bish): Christianity is not about moralism, and Christian fiction shouldn’t be either. Christianity revolves, not around good behavior, but around God’s mercy shown to man in the death and resurrection of Christ. However, even though […]
I listen to a lot of talks, lectures, sermons, podcasts and stuff on my mp3 player, so I was very annoyed when it stopped working a couple of months ago. Yesterday, I finally got it back in working order having sent it to be repaired, so I went online and downloaded around 50 mp3s to […]
Last week, I attended Contagious, a Christian youth camp, which I’ve been going on since I was 14 and I’m now a leader on. The theme this year was Spiritual Warfare. It’s one of those subjects that’s often happy hunting ground for weirdos: a subject much loved by eccentric televangelists and paranoid fruitcakes. So it […]
It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest given the strongly Christian themes of Harry Potter in general and book seven in particular, but I just saw this article in which J K Rowling talks about the part that Christianity plays in her books, and also talks about her faith and doubts: here.