Edinburgh has a problem with its drunks. In a cunning move, people have been banned from drinking in some of the biggest problem spots, to try to move the drunks on. This is a better plan than the geographical asbo schemes in place last year, which mean that those misbehaving could be moved on and [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Edinburgh’s Drunks Problem
Posted in Scottish, musings, politics on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Rejecting Transactionary Christianity (2)
Posted in evangelism, ponderings, quotes, theology on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Christian faith cannot be a transaction in which you seek to gain heaven by believing or behaving in a particular way. To reduce faith to something we do or have in order to get something else sells Christian hope short and misrepresents God.
Christian faith is a response to who God is, not a means of [...]
Evangelism Techniques
Posted in emerging churches, evangelism, musings, quotes on July 24, 2007 | 8 Comments »
How do we evangelise, what do we evangelise, what works? I don’t know, my dissertation has given me almost total brain fog, but I saw this quote at the weekend, and it made me wonder about some of the strategies for evangelism I saw, and indeed was part of, at university. No wonder they didn’t [...]
Rejecting Transactionary Christianity (1)
Posted in evangelism, musings, ponderings, quotes, theology on July 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Dallas Willard has said that many evangelicals are vampire Christians, that is, they only want Jesus for his blood. Joking aside, this type of Christianity is alive and well, with thinking that says that unless you trust in Jesus and his salvific work on the cross, you’re going to hell, but so long as [...]
Why Al Qaeda supports the emergent church…
Posted in emerging churches, musings, quotes on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
because deep, deep down, when he’s in a room full of candles and Brian McLaren reading white/middleclass disillusioned wannabe rebels and revolutionaries, Osma bin Laden himself is part of an emerging church?
Well no, actually, Frank Pastore thinks he’s making a serious point, on Why Al Qaeda Supports the Emergent Church:
The emergent church is an [...]
Mad giveaway?
Posted in politics, ponderings on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The son of a man who gave 8m to the tory party has claimed that his father was delusional. You don’t say, some would say.
Would I? Seems a little harsh… What do you reckon?
Who Dies? You Decide….
Posted in life, musings on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The NY times has commissioned four endings to the Harry Potter saga/cycle/myth. Well worth a read if you’re in need of some entertainment or, if like me, you keep finding yourself trying to blag Harry Potter conversations on a very minimal amount of knowledge and reflection.
It’s just a silver ring … not everything
Posted in musings, theology on July 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The High Court has ruled that a school was allowed to ban a pupil from wearing a “chastity ring”. The school had said that it was not an essential part of the Christian faith, the young lady in question had argued that if Sikh and Muslim pupils wore bangles and headscarves she should be allowed [...]
Theology of Chocolate
Posted in musings, theology on July 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Fire and the Rose, doing theology perhaps, as it ought to be done, offers a Theology of Chocolate. Well worth a read, a smile and a taste.
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Finding yourself in cyberspace
Posted in Scottish, life, musings, photos on July 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The world is a small, small place.
Reading some blogs today (yup, should’ve been reading stuff for the dissertation, but I am meant to be researching blogs at the moment), I came across a photo of most of my family on a friend’s blog, we’re his “featured friends” this week/month or something (scroll down to the [...]
