You should definitely get yourself over to IAmJoshBrown.com and check out his most recent post on consumption:
I don’t watch television. The only show I watch is LOST. So maybe 2 hours a week. Tops. I tell myself I’m an intellectual and that I’m a better person for reading books rather than watching American Idol or [...]
I’ve been reading the very very good book “A Community Called Atonement” by emerging blogger/theologian Scot McKnight. I was deeply struck by the following passage:
“We are not being fair to the Pauline texts on the cross if we narrow them simply and woodenly to resolution of my sin problem. The cross addresses our sin problem [...]
It is a difficult thing to talk about Christianity in Australia. So much of the Christian tradition, structure and even culture in this country has been imported: historically from Britain and Europe and more recently like the rest of the western world from the US of A. It’s a difficult thing to do, therefore, to [...]
Posted in Church, Culture |
I’m back from honeymooning, and we’ll be kicking back off here soon. But to keep you interested, I thought I’d better post this tidbit from the wider blogosphere:
I recently heard someone say that the motto of Christianity nowadays is
“And now these three things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is truth.” [...]
Posted in Church, Quotes |
With all the excitement around at the moment - both in terms of the general Chrsitmassy type seasonal stuff as well as the personal, getting-married-in-19-days stuff means that I don’t have the sort of time I’d want to dedicate to doing AT properly, so we’re just going to let it take a break for a [...]