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Review: The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage, Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch, Baker, 2011
‘You tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try’ (Homer Simpson) The Devil in The Brothers Karamazov: ‘Everything would be transformed into a religious service: it would be holy, but a little dull’ Title of Philip Yancey best-seller: Church: Why Bother? ‘Most men die at 27; we just bury them at 72’ […]
Good Books for Pastors
Compiled September 2008 The following is designed as an aid to help recommend some thoughtful books for pastors. We admit it has gaps. In fact we are sure that it will have glaring omissions largely because we have intentionally tried to keep the number of books diverse yet in a manageable quantity (actually we initially […]
THE RETURN OF METAPHYSICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
John Milbank is delivering the prestigious 2011 Stanton Lectures at Cambridge University on the theme, “Philosophy: A Theological Critique.” This opening lecture was delivered on 19 January 2011. This series of lectures will not be concerned with either the philosophy of religion or philosophical theology. Instead, they will be about the relationship between philosophy and theology. […]
Silent Savior: Daring to Believe He’s Still There
Silent Savior: Daring to Believe He’s Still There, by A. J. Gregory (Revell, 2009) So how do people cope with emotional pain, disaster, loneliness, depression (not to mention, in Gregory’s case, also bulimia, problems with alcohol and males – and, she also mentions, several rejections of this manuscript by publishers!)? (By the way we don’t […]
Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda (1988): Pathogenic Religion
1. First, a good summary of the story: Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher’s kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders […]
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Movie Review – Voyage of the Dawn Treader by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com This third movie (but not the third story) in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia follows on from the brilliant fantasy and wonder that we saw in the previous two movies. This time only Lucy and Edmund of our four heroes are transported […]
History / Herstory
The feminists of prehistory Phillip Adams From: The Australian December 08, 2010 THE history of man. Of mankind. The masculine nomenclature you’d expect from a cultural continuum that begins with a male God and, as His first human, an Adam. With Eve, the troublesome afterthought who saddled us with death and sin. Phrases appropriate to […]
The Seven Basic Plots
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, by Christopher Booker. New York: Continuum, 2005, viii & 728 pp. $34.98. In the summer of 1975, moviegoers flocked to see the story of a predatory shark terrorizing a little Long Island resort. The film told how three brave men go to sea in a small boat […]
Best/key articles on this website (plus other personal stuff)
Hi friends,  (Updated May 2014)       [1] CANCER SCARE: My wife – of 54 wonderful years – Jan has suffered a couple of serious health issues in the last 12 months (mainly Pulmonary Embolism, and an aggressive form of Uterine Cancer + a few other medical issues).  See here for updates. (Rev.) […]
Review: Quarterly Essay
Quarterly Essay is (in my view) a ‘must-read’ Australian publication, with a 25,000-word essay in each issue by a prominent academic or political commentator. The last-but-one had a brilliant offering by Mungo MacCallum titled ‘Australian Story’: his attempt to fit Prime Minister Kevin Rudd into our generalized perceptions of our Australian history and ethos. Now […]
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