Dec 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
i got to thinking about the tyranny of fear which violence brings. about newtown. and i was begging god for those moms and dads, and siblings. that he would bring memories of delight, and laughter, and adequacy. and that he would hide the...
Dec 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Human beings, according to French thinkerRené Girard, are fundamentally imitative creatures. We copy each other's desires and are in perpetual conflict with one another over the objects of our desire. In early human communities, this conflict created a permanent...
Dec 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Daniel is one of the last books of the Hebrew bible. Parts of it were written only 160 years before Jesus' birth. It could be compared with Darwin's Origin of Species, a book written in the recent past (middle of 19th century) which significantly affects...
Dec 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
I am neither an economist, nor the son of an economist. However, I am a Jesus follower, and, it so happens, the son of a Jesus follower at that! And I am more and more moved to try to work with other followers of Jesus to discover a faith-filled way...
Nov 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Exhorting the CoE to ‘get with the programme’ dilutes the argument for women bishops “But that would be putting the clock back,” gasps a feckless official in one of C. S. Lewis’s stories. “Have you no idea of progress, of development?” “I have seen them both in an...
Nov 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter,...
