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Heathen’s Progress: Julian Baggini on Atheism & Nihilism
I just finished writing a post over at A Borrowed Flame about John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, so it’s apt that I write here about Julian Baggini’s refreshlingly honest piece about contemporary...
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Forging identity through sung worship
In the opening chapter of Resounding Truth, Jeremy Begbie challenges the uncritical adoption of the common idea of “expresivism” in worship music (p38): that music is fundamentally an outward...
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Are you a Hipster Christian?
A reliable method for finding the best coffee in an unfamiliar town is to follow some hipsters. Anyhow here’s a quiz to see if you are a Christian Hipster -I got 72/120. Looks like an interesting book...
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Impossible Church
A number of the comments on Rachel Held Evan’s latest posts about leaving and returning to the Church were a little disheartening, and have certainly got me thinking about all sorts of things. I both...
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Der Meistersänger
One of the great singers of the 20th century died yesterday. The German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a champion of lieder, having recorded most of the repertoire, much of it multiple times. He...
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Kurt Willems on ‘Our God is greater’
Kurt Willems over at Pangea has written a post arguing that Chris Tomlin’s song Our God is Greater, while true, is not necessarily helpful to sing. (Go and read his post first) Here’s the song: We’ve...
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Genesis, Gervais & jumping from space
Maybe you read some of the tweets after Felix Baumgartner’s record breaking freefall jump form the edge of space; it was certainly an awe inspiring event. “Science rocks!” was one that I saw few times....
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Some musings on imago dei via Wallenberg
Tobias Schabel as Wallenberg Tonight is the revival of our production of Wallenberg, an opera based on Raoul Wallenberg who gave Swedish passports to Jews in Nazi-occupied Budapest during WWII, and...
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White wine in the sun?
It’s that time of year again, when many of my fellow antipodeans share this video: And I can understand why. Tim Minchin, in clever (it’s almost as if he sets a page of The God Delusion to the score of...
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Links worth reading #2
Fighting the Tyranny of Ministry Success – Desiring God. Embrace the people that he’s put in front of you. Don’t envy someone else’s sheep. Care for yours. The Three Worst Qualities of the...
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