Hope

A little confession. First, apologies for not having blogged for a good week. Secondly, the reason is partially due to having had lack of inspiration, but also due to a request made by my friend Gail that I write on the subject of hope. Not because this is at all a bad thing, or that [...]

God and Family

Mark 3:31-35
31And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him.
32And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.”
33And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”
34And looking about at those who sat around [...]

While we are in the world…?

A conversation today with Mike, a friend of mine, at one point touched upon the subject of politics and government. While he expressed a common distaste for all political parties, understandably recognising that they each have their own agendas, I asserted that I do not vote as a matter of principle. As many people would, [...]

Christian Sexual Ethics

One of the greatest plagues in the Christian Church today is that issues which should otherwise be on the fringe of importance (or else open for civilised debate) are often forced toward the focal point of central interest, and assigned dogmatic restrictions which will put a person in danger of being labelled heretic or apostate [...]

New Monasticism

As I’m given to understand it, “new monasticism” is the commitment to seeking after a more thought-out, prayerful, contemplative, and peaceful life, with these 12 guidelines:

1. Relocation to the abandoned places of Empire.
2. Sharing economic resources with fellow community members and the needy among us.
3. Hospitality to the stranger.
4. Lament for racial divisions within the [...]

Violence and the Christians of Today

The way I talk of nonviolence, one might think that I am expecting some sort of government conscription to be effected, or that the Church today is somehow largely in danger of undergoing mass compulsion to take up the sword in battle. Realistically, I expect no such thing; my concern is the extent to which [...]

MLK’s Five Principles of Nonviolence

The Five Principles of Non-Violence as Outlined by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Non-violent resistance is not a method for cowards. It does resist. The nonviolent resister is just as strongly opposed to the evil against which he protests, as is the person who uses violence. His method is passive or nonagressive in the sense that [...]

Duped by Dualism

I’m usually of the opinion that beliefs regarding eschatology are of a personal nature and are relatively unimportant to a person’s spiritual walk as they do not necessarily affect our deeds while we still occupy this life.
It occurs to me, however, that an eschatology which is divorced from the physical realm can be quite harmful [...]

“There is no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalist.”

Now that I have your attention, let me first of all say that this quote is not mine. I have heard it frequently, however, and given its controversial nature I thought it might be an idea to explore its possible veracity or lack thereof.
At first glance, however, this does not seem like an entirely unreasonable [...]

Nonviolence in Scripture

My discussions with Heretic today inspired this short post.
I made a couple of posts earlier on, one on Agapé love, the other on Jesus and the Moneychangers, which I felt gave some sense of why Nonviolence is an integral part of the Gospel. I appreciate, however, that to many Christians there may not be an [...]