Tom Wright on Christian Hope

This is something of an early review on the book “Surprised by Hope” by Tom Wright (Or N.T. Wright to his more scholarly audience), who, for those of you unaware, is the Bishop of Durham in the Anglican Communion, and one of the more prominent New Testament theologians of our day.
I say this is [...]

Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood

I realise this is quite lazy of me, but this isn’t so much a blog post as it is a redirection to one. My friend Jason Barr, over at Absolution Revolution, has written a highly interesting article about the relationship between Galatians 3:28 and gender equality. This is an issue which is of a bit [...]

The Cosmic Christ

I listened to quite an interesting guest preacher at my church today, a Northern American fellow by the name of Matthew Fox, who was speaking on the subject of “The Cosmic Christ,” derived from the famous hymnal passage from Colossians 1:15-20.
He was speaking, in a nutshell, of the profound truth whereby Christ is found quite [...]

Wrestling with the Resurrection

Of all the theological doctrines, concepts, and problems which have crossed my mind since I became a Christian, not many have been quite so perplexing and consistently mind bending as the subject of Heaven versus Hell. It has come to the point for me, where I am almost afraid to even put to paper any [...]

Some thoughts on the Bible

I wrote down some viewpoints of mine lately on one of the forums I frequent. So in a sense, this is a lazy blog post but I thought it might be a good idea to get it down where I can find it. Apologies if these ideas seem scrappy and somewhat disjointed.
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What people don’t understand [...]

Romans 13 as a Justification for Authoritarian Violence

I often see this passage used by Christians to not only endorse the necessity of human authority, but also to justify such things as capital punishment and warfare.
I have often argued that the traditional interpretation of the chapter cannot possibly make sense given that it follows on directly from Romans 12, which seemingly offers a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]