If you’re still subscribed to an RSS Feed, or visit moderately frequently, you’ll have noticed that nothing has happened here for quite a while. So after some to-ing and fro-ing, I’ve officially decided that Amateur Theology is “parked”, and I don’t have any plans to continue blogging here in the forseeable future.
Basically, while I am [...]
Sure, it makes me an apostate, and a bad person. But I can’t find myself disagreeing with much that he says at all, and I think here we have a vital message for the church to hear. That’s all
Over at my personal blog (TheGeoffRe(y)port), I’ve taken on a bit of a theme around the misplaced feeling of entitlement that is so engrained as an enabler for our consumeristic mindset in the west (”The Ongoing Redefinition of Wealth“, “India to US - Shut up Fatty” and “Lobbyist, Possibly The Funniest Profession In The World” [...]
Realise that there’s been a grand total of zero activity here for far too long, but hopefully someone is still keeping track of things here. I’ve recently had a preaching gig at Ranges CC, and Scott has graciously uploaded the sermon, so I’m linking it here for you to have a listen, if you’re interested. [...]
Fantastic article from Waleed Aly in “The Age” this week. Thought this quote deserved a mention, perhaps as an allegory for the institutional church:
“But religion struggled to be cool, much less inspiring in the popular space. Religious music persisted, but in subcultures. The American Christian country music industry is enormous, but not mainstream. Evangelical churches [...]