Posted in eschatology, theodicy on 15 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
Occasions of suffering like we are seeing in Burma and China are always jarring reminders of the fragility of life as well as the extreme vulnerability to disaster that many (especially the poor) live with. The unimaginable scale of loss and devastation (with losses in the hundreds of thousands) that is being [...]
Posted in evangelicalism on 12 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
Since co-teaching a course last year on contemporary evangelicalism, I was very interested to come across The Evangelical Manifesto: A Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment, a publication only five days old that attempts the very tricky task of defining evangelicalism and describing what an evangelical presence in the world should look like.
The manifesto [...]
Posted in history, secularism on 8 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well I’m back from a week of work-related travel (thank you Bethany Players) and in the process of planning out my summer. As always there will be a fair bit of time spent on trying to catch up on some of my teaching areas but I’m also starting to think about August 25 and [...]
