UK TVs Newsnight at 10.30 on BBC2 tonight will be speaking of how well people have responded to the disaster. They say they will also ask theologians the why did God allow it? question but also the in this case arguably more important question- Why did science allow it?. They claim equipment used to monitor for nuclear tests was laying idle whilst the workers were on holiday and could have been used to give the early warning that might have... Read more
Jollyblogger has caught up in our tag-blogging and has completed his TULIP series. I did my post on perserverence of the saints a while back. Read more
The British Blasphemy Corporation have replied to my personal email as follows- BBC INFORMATION We are pleased to confirm receipt of your e-mail to BBC Information. All comments, complaints and appreciations are read and recorded in full on a daily log within one working day of receipt. This log is circulated widely within the BBC to programme-makers and senior management. Your feedback is extremely important to us, as it helps to form decisions about future programme making and editorial policy.... Read more
The BBC reported UK Prime Minister Tony Blairs horror at the ‘global catastrophe’ of the Asian tsunami. Mr Blair, who is on holiday in Egypt, said the long-term effects would need attention from the international community for months, if not years. The disaster has claimed the lives of 124,000 people, including 35 Britons. His comments, made to Channel Four News, came as donations from the public to a disaster fund reached 60m, exceeding the government’s 50m pledge. Will the government... Read more
The new Emerging Church or neo-liberalism? is now at www.emerging-neoliberal.christian.nu Whilst the Blogdom of God is at www.blogdom.christian.nu I believe that this new redirect provider will not cause any pop-up windows unlike the last one we tried- please let me know if there are any problems. Read more
Mark Daniels: “When we allow ourselves to experience Jesus Christ, He will light our way through even the darkest of passages of life, enabling us to cope and inspiring us to love our neighbors–even those across the ocean–so that they too can be given light in their darkness and hope for their futures.” Read more
I have just discovered what I suspect is the best currently available tool to clear the haze that our culture so cleverly exudes and allow many to see a truly Christian worldview for the first time. Too many Christians simply don’t reason enough today. Thinking through our underlying assumptions and value systems is just not something we are often encouraged to do in the world or in the church. Viewed by many as the Francis Schaeffer of her generation, I... Read more
Back in August my blogging friend JOLLYBLOGGER quotes Total Truth as follows This heightened activism has yielded good results in many areas of public life, yet the impact remains far less than most had hoped. Why? Because evangelicals often put all their eggs in one basket: They leaped into political activism as the quickest, surest way to make a difference in the public arena – failing to realize that politics tend to reflect a culture, not the other way around……... Read more
Nancy Pearcy’s book has a chapter online for us to read. I am so going to read this book! In it she says the following:- As we saw in the previous chapter, modern society is characterized by a sharp split between the sacred and secular spheres with work and business defined as strictly secular. As a consequence, Christians often live in two separate worlds, commuting between the private world of family and church (where we can express our faith freely)... Read more
David Limbaugh quotes an interview with Nancy in which she explains “the modernist definition of knowledge, which says that things like religion, morality, and ethics are not a matter of genuine truth (as they were traditionally thought to be), but instead are merely personal ‘values.’ This is often called the fact/value split……. The assumption is that reliable knowledge comes only from the realm of scientific “facts,” which are objective, rational, and value-free. Then there’s realm of “values,” which may be... Read more
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