Hugh Hewitt has a good post about the UK crack down on terror sympathizers announced yesterday. He wonders if the US would be able to export its won terror advocates in a similar way to that which Blair is proposing. The Guardian describes these plans as “The most sweeping anti-terrorism proposals since the Second World War”Perhaps the most interesting part of the news that I read is that Blair is considering altering the UK’s bill of Human Rights to accommodate... Read more
With all the recent challenges on the gospel, a passage in 2 Corinthians 5 is becomming ever more precious to me. The key verse is 21, but I will here set it in context. This passage alone seems to me to demolish N.T.Wright’s new perspectives on Paul as well as Steve Chalkes criticisms of the penal substitution view of the atonement:Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has... Read more
Last night I lobbed a grenade entitled New Perspectives on Paul, by N.T. Wright into the blogosphere. Not surprisingly I got two predictable response. The first argued we were wasting our time even considering Wright, the second seemed to uncritically accept him. Indeed the second kind of response and its prevelance shows me why at least some of us need to read at least some of what Wright has to say, if only to be equipped to counter it. In... Read more
Found this article New Perspectives on Paul, by N.T. Wright. I havent had time to read it all yet, but would be interested in a critique from my blogger friends. Can we find good even in New perspectives which many of us largely disagree with? Read more
I want to issue a call to prayer to those of my readers who feel connected to this blog. There are three things I would love you to pray for specifically. 1. My family Please pray for us, I just read of David Warnocks Moving house and thought how strange, for God willing we should be doing the very same thing within a month. Please pray that the one small sticking point that is holding things up right now will... Read more
Well last night I had a great time with Mr and Mrs Blogotional last night. They are a lovely couple and we ate wonderful Indian food on Brick lane. We discussed being a blog widdow, craft, theology and GodBlogCon– wish I could go! Read more
Rev Bill has written in response to my previous post on love. Read more
The Christian Carnival LXXXI has been posted. We are just off to have dinner with blogotional and his wife. I just realised I don’t know what he looks like!!! Read more
It seems it is not just the English word for Love that is inadequate. According to an article I was reading tonight, the bible writers had the same problem. When the author of any bible passage uses the word agape particularly “he pours into that word a content of meaning it never had in pagan Greek, namely, the idea of self-sacrifice for the benefit of some other person who is one?’s enemy and naturally unlovable. Thus agapan when used in... Read more
Today I was thinking about love. I asked my daughter, Tamasin, what the word “love” means, and also checked the Oxford Dictionaries Online (both English and American). Let’s just say my daughter got it right and not those academics at Oxford! The dictionaries both defined love simply as “an intense feeling of deep affection” – which surprised me more than it perhaps should. My daughter is already well indoctrinated in a godly Christian worldview and defined love very differently:“Love is... Read more
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