Friday Brains-Trust Appeal – Songs about Cities
Right-oh, this is how we’re going to make it through Friday. I’m setting up a playlist of songs that have the names of cities in their title. Here’s three to start us off. Falco – Vienna Calling Sinatra – New York Dionne Warwick – Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Your job, add [...]
View PostI am, apparently, an “Anglican Commentator”
… and some slightly more important news. So says Eternity Newspaper, After a decade as the principal of Moore Theological College in Sydney, Dr John Woodhouse has announced he will retire at the beginning of next year. Dr Woodhouse said in an official statement “there is nothing dramatic in this decision. It is simply my judgment about [...]
View PostSame-Sex Marriage in Medieval Irish Churches? Boswell Sinks to a New Academic Low
Like me you’ve probably seen this sort of thing doing the rounds on teh intarweb recently: Prof John Boswell, the late chairman of Yale University’s history department, found there were ceremonies called the Office of Same-Sex Union and the Order for Uniting Two Men in the 10th to 12th centuries. The medievalist published Christianity, Social [...]
View PostAdoption, Abortion and “Gay Marriage” – joining the dots with Jesus
This is going to be a bit of a ramble. Grab a cup of something and sit down with me… I’ve been working through the latest government adoption report [pdf] in Australia, prompted by my previous post and I came across this chilling sentence (chapter 4, p.34): Broader social trends, such as declining fertility rates, the wider [...]
View PostThe Unashamed Workman Returns!
The Unashamed Workman is back! Colin Adams’ blog is for preachers, to encourage and equip them in what they do. The aims of Unashamed Workman are: To promote and defend the vital and central practice of expository preaching for the sake of the church and the unevangelised. To encourage pastors and missionaries who are involved [...]
View PostThe “Necessity” for Same-Sex Adoptive Couples – getting some facts straight
Perhaps, like me, you’ve heard the argument that same-sex couples ought to be allowed to adopt children since there is a need. No child, it is argued, ought to be denied the right to loving parents. Implicit in this is the assumption that, somehow, there is a lack of loving heterosexual adoptive parents. Given the [...]
View PostInventing the Mythical Jesus
brilliant Let’s say we want to reform a religion in a new direction. We look for a founder who we can claim fits the kind of profile everyone is expecting. This leader, this messiah, is most likely to be a successful warrior, a general who wins battles of God’s own side. We can’t find one, [...]
View PostI’m Spartacus: another attack on Freedom of Speech in the UK
His Grace has extraordinary news, Apparently there have been a number of complaints about one of the advertisements His Grace carried on behalf of the Coalition for Marriage. He has been sent all manner of official papers, formal documentation and threatening notices which demand answers to sundry questions by a certain deadline. He is instructed [...]
View PostA new bishop for Singapore
The Christian Post in Singapore are reporting that the Diocese of Singapore has elected Rennis Ponniah as it’s 9th bishop. The Assistant Bishop in the Anglican Church in Singapore, the Right Reverend Rennis Ponniah has been appointed the Ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Singapore, the Archbishop of South East Asia, the Most Revd. Bolly [...]
View PosteChurch on the Dunning-Kruger effect
I’ve always wondered what this phenomenon was called but eChurch blog has enlightened me… Put simply this effect occurs when someone knows very little about something and fails to realise they know very little. Their lack of knowledge leads them to a lack of insight into their lack of knowledge and gives rise to an [...]
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