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.
lilytodd: Anyone like a drink?
lilytodd: Anyone like a drink? - I told my wife this would happen and we should prepare for it but instead it happened as I might have expected. Our child grassed on us. Personally I’m glad, that’s that over and done with. The out-laws now know that we partake of the biblical wine that makes the [...]
The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
The blurb for this book caught my eye :
When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house upon a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with a number of weird mysteries and involved in a drama she only partly understands.
Some crime or catastrophe in the past still [...]
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 [...]
