Language
Very few of the young people with whom I work are comfortable talking openly about any so-called religious experiences. This, of course, does not mean that people today cease to have […]
Category Archives: books
Snails
I’m very much enjoying Trystan Hughes’ book, The Compassion Quest. In the second chapter, he argues the case that everything is interconnected. Since very early on in Christianity, we have gone […]
The Les Miserables Movie
This movie is amazing. My wife and I were lucky enough to get a baby sitter and go out to see it last night, and we both came back with […]
It is easier to break a rule than to to cheat on a lover
The hijacking of the concept of morality began, of course, when we reduced scripture to formula and a love story to theology, and finally morality to rules. It is a […]
Dark Eden by Chris Beckett
Imagine the human race starting again on another planet, from two people, in a very different world. Dark Eden is about exactly that. Two people, Tommy and Angela, were stranded […]
Stories and our place in them
It is fairly common knowledge that there are seven basic plots to stories. These plots can be found in novels of all sorts on the big screen as well. These […]
Donald Miller on love
Earthly love, I mean the stuff I was trying to get by sounding smart, is temporal and slight so that it has to be given again and again in order […]
Two thoughts on conversion.
From Scot McKnight: for some, conversion is like a birth certificate whilst for others it is like a driver’s license. For the first, the ultimate question is “what do I […]
A personal reflection on the novel ‘Jubilee’, by Shelly Harris
Another novel picked for our book club, and this one is the best so far. Jubilee, a first novel by British/South African author Shelly Harris, is the story of two photographs. […]
Truth telling and forgiveness by @scotmcknight
Telling God the truth awakens forgiveness. Sometimes one gets the impression from misguided experts that God is holding a club over our heads, and the moment we tell the truth […]
