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Toilet Tissue Issues 18 Sep 2009 | 12:14 am
I just came across this on my hard drive. I wrote it years ago when our church seemed to be using toilet paper far more quickly than we would have expected. Toilet Tissue Issues We have had a few pr...
Nigerian wedding scam? 5 Jul 2009 | 07:43 pm
I just received one of the most creative 419 style spams I think I’ve ever received. Given the nature of my occupation I actually thought it might be real for the first sentence or so. If I were Catho...
Convert an atheist… and win! 5 Jul 2009 | 09:21 am
This is bizarre. A Turkish reality TV show will be pitting a Greek Orthodox priest, a rabbi, an imam and a Buddhist monk to see who can convert the most atheists to their respective religions. There’...
Repaying a curse 4 Jul 2009 | 11:37 pm
I was at a meeting of various Christians this week and one of the guys made an interesting comment. It turns out, he said, that the main difference between the Vietnam War and the wars that had gone o...
How do we deal with adherents of other religions? 1 Jun 2009 | 12:06 am
Adam Walker-Cleaveland of pomomusings has been running a series of posts called ‘Plurality 2.0.’ Each post has been contrinuted by a guest author. I’ll admit that I haven’t really followed the series,...
The Burial of Jesus—a review 20 May 2009 | 01:40 am
Some time ago I received a review copy of James F. McGrath’s book The Burial of Jesus. Professor McGrath is associate professor of religion at Butler University, specialising in history and biblical s...
A fuller gospel 19 May 2009 | 11:52 pm
Scot McKnight has just started a series of posts on ‘the Kingdom Gospel.’ In the first of the series we read Many readers of the Bible read the whole Bible through the lens of the gospel they believe...
SA101–a quick review 27 Apr 2009 | 01:44 am
One of the jobs I have as a Salvation Army officer is training people to be Salvation Army soldiers. It’s an important task, and one that I want to get right. Whilst such training continues for the wh...
Lest I Forget 26 Apr 2009 | 02:28 am
Today is ANZAC Day. For those outside of Australia and New Zealand ANZAC Day is the commemoration of the landing by Allied troops at Gallipoli, Turkey in 1915. In straight military terms the day (whic...
Without Fear And Trembling 22 Apr 2009 | 01:59 pm
James McGrath of Exploring our Matrix has a few ideas that aren’t generally appreciated by some of the more conservative members of the evangelical church. One of the commenters on his blog recently d...
