Bogosity

Tonight was my first lecture in Triune God at St Francis College .

Some notes from the lecture:

The trinity is our attempt to make sense of the Christian experience of God in Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It’s formulation was a process influenced by various cultural pressures and competing ways of thinking in the early [...]

Just listened to a great discussion on the Religion Report about Philip Rieff but it was not so much interesting because of him but because of the discussion about morality and society as well. John Carroll from Latrobe University is being interviewed by Stephen Crittenden.

Here’s a few interesting paragraphs and some of my comments [...]

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives. – Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875 – 1965)

Father Bob makes a good point in this article on his blog linking spirituality with our ability to mend our environmental problems.

Father Bob

We risk environmental catastrophe because we no longer see the earth as holy but regard it simply as a  ‘resource’. Unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that can keep abreast of [...]

I was in a bit of a ‘funk’ late last week and on the weekend. It’s hard to explain but I just felt flat and listless. Was it because I was working too hard? – usually I’m happiest when I’m working hard. Was it because I was a bit lonely? No [...]

I just listened to the religion report which was of special interest to Anglicans. They have spruced up their website too.

The Religion Report – 5 July 2006 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Sydney on the state of Anglican Communion

Rowen Williams Says:

the debate in the Anglican communion is not essentially a [...]

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. – Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938 – )