Posted in politics, social issues on 28 September 2006 | 10 Comments »
I had the chance to listen to Romeo Dallaire give the 2006 Schumiatcher Lecture at TCU Place last night and left the evening with a renewed sense of admiration of a courageous and visionary leader as well as a bit of lingering confusion over what it was that Dallaire was envisioning for the future. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 27 September 2006 | 4 Comments »
Posted in Uncategorized on 25 September 2006 | 5 Comments »
I came across an interesting post on called Ten Propositions on Hell over at Faith and Theology. A couple of the ones that I found intriguing:
“1. What is hell? Hell cannot be known in and of itself. As a negative to a positive, hell can only be known as the antithesis of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 September 2006 | No Comments »
Speaking of disengagement from religion… I just got my latest edition of the MB Herald (our denominational magazine) and there was a brief feature on an initiative of the Family Life Network called The Postcard to God Project. The idea is fairly simple, viewers are invited to complete the following sentence: “If [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 18 September 2006 | 15 Comments »
Some interesting research from the Barna Group has just come out that suggests that the twenties and thirties are often years when people disengage from the church and faith. This is interesting given the fact that the teenage years are those in which people are most spiritually active. According to Barna fully [...]
Posted in theology on 5 September 2006 | 12 Comments »
Here’s an interesting perspective on one of the root causes of cynicism within the church:
“One of the greatest causes of cynicism among Christians is the way we lather God-talk over our lives in order to obscure realities we consider too painful to discuss directly… Hiding behind a veneer of God-talk that everyone knows is just [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 4 September 2006 | 2 Comments »
Some of you may have heard of Derek Webb, a former singer with Caedmon’s Call. Anyways, I’m not a huge fan of a lot of contemporary Christian music but it seems like this guy is up to some interesting things (although he’d probably resist the label). He’s decided to give away his latest [...]
Posted in social issues on 3 September 2006 | 6 Comments »
I just finished a belated reading of Shake Hands With the Devil, Romeo Daillaire’s gut-wrenching account of the Rwandan genocide of 1993. It’s difficult to know what to do with a book like this. Rwanda’s is essentially a story of Western abuse and failure, from Belgian colonial rule to the paralyzed indifference [...]
