For a long time I have been pondering what it means to love God. Contrary to some obscure what kind of “defective personality test are you” test I took randomly on Facebook (why take such things you may well ask? At least I didn’t publish it!), I am not wooden, but nor am I given [...]
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25 May
pointless but beautiful
I have just finished reading Tim Winton’s latest book “Breath“. The book is a coming of age tale with unsurprisingly, a strong theme of breathing and its association with the strangely entwined experience of both seeking to feel truly alive and soliciting death. A lesser theme that resonates in the background as consistently [...]
22 Nov
loosing and binding
I have been a Christian for a long time. I couldn’t count how many sermons or seminars I have sat through, some with eagerness and many with barely disguisable boredom. I am sure I have heard more than one deal with the subject of “loosing and binding”. Usually to do with spiritual warfare. For those [...]
21 Sep
Generous Orthodoxy.
I always knew that there had to be an alternative to having a pat answer for everything. That it was possible to know some things for sure, hold others in tension, and respectfully consider everything else, with a view to learning from what seems “other” without having to be utterly persuaded by it. This [...]
7 Jul
How big is your sin?
Here’s my second instalment from Leo Tolstoy’s “Divine and Human”. It is about two women who go to an old saint to learn from him. One woman thought of herself as a terrible sinner – she had cheated on her husband when younger. She told the old man about it, and felt [...]
1 Jul
How can you look with love…?
I am reading a book by russian author Leo Tolstoy called “Divine and Human and other stories“. It was written around the time of the 1905 Russian revolution. Overall the book has thus far not been a real stand out for me, however, there are a couple of stories that seem blog-worthy for [...]
8 Nov
Chicken soup for the blogger’s soul
Most of my posts on my previous blog were critiques – of church, theology, movies, politics. Perhaps not dissimilar to some of the blogs that I read. On Saturday night I had dinner with friends who introduced me to the RealLivePreacher. They also lent us his book, a collection of posts. The preacher does look [...]
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