Just a weblog:
William Crawley’s entertaining summary of his interview with Pete Rollins at ikon, Belfast.
Pete’s unfolding (apocalyptic) response to William’s question “Do you believe in God”?
Fascinating stuff: Belief, ontology, empiricism, commitment, language – all in the mix.
Voxless
Pete Rollins, William Crawley and God.
The White Stone
If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches! ” To those who win the victory I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give each of them a white stone on which is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives [...]
Moses and the Quizzing Generation
“When your children ask you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?’ then you shall say to your children, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.”
Deuteronomy [...]
The Grey Havens of Matthew 10:40-42
The sermon in church this morning was called “War and Peace” and was based on the famous passage of Jesus where he says that he did not come to bring “peace” but the “sword”. Not the first thing you think of with Jesus but historically accurate nevertheless. Our minister also read the remaining part of [...]
On the Death of a Relative
She was never “involved” with Jesus. I use that phrase “involved” to avoid the pantheon of evangelical cliches that describe someone as “saved”. She couldn’t stand the botheration of whatever Gospel gunners turned up at her nursing home to run the Sunday service. She wasn’t always polite about it. That’s not [...]
Brain Training – Dawkins v Plantinga
I’m happy to inform that my brain has been to gym today, mainly by reading this article by Alvin Plantinga on Richard Dawkins’ God Delusion.
I suppose I’ve been often scared by the very thought of Richard Dawkins particularly as he manages in interviews to remain calm and dignified even whilst his books contain much blood [...]
Desire as Indicator and Excuse
There are (at least) two points of view as always on the question of belief.
1. I believe only and simply because I want to believe in a God of Grace who created and sustains the universe, making humanity in his(?) own image and participating in humanity’s reclamation / redemption from whatever predicament we seem [...]
