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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Don’t always do what Jesus would do
One of the most helpful approaches to thinking about the Trinity, and Jesus in particular has been this concept that we serve a God who is inherently incarnational. It centres around this idea that in God choosing to become like us, through Jesus, we can understand something about who God is, and as a result [...]
Bono says what needed to be said
“It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable treatable disease and hunger,” the U2 lead singer told Clinton’s fourth annual philanthropic summit in New York. “That’s mad, that is mad.”
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Combining two great loves
I’m a big fan of processed meat – and as a bit of a maths-head, I’m a sucker for a cool geometric pattern. So when Boing Boing had a post on a marble floor made of salami, I expected to love it. But this pretty much just makes me never to touch any kind of [...]
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Articulating the tension
The Emergent Village Blog has been hosting a blogologue (dialogue over a blog – yes it’s a pretentious word), between Tony Jones and Bill Easum.
I really don’t try or need to get around “the medium is the message.” We have misunderstood the message, we have Hellenized it to the point it is mostly meaningless to [...]
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“What Jesus Meant” – A Train Story
Melbourne Central Train Station.
Image via Wikipedia.
This story begins in the home of many great stories: Borders. One fine day, the hero of our story was casually wandering through Borders on his lunchbreak, and stumbled across a book entitled “What Jesus Meant“. (Not literally of course, what with the book being on a table [...]