Bogosity

Backyards are an excellent place for some quiet time, rest and recovery and encounters with the infinite.

I was just standing out in the backyard, enjoying the cool breeze, the silence, the dark sky, the enormous trees that the Forest Lake developers nicely left in the back corner of my yard – feeling at peace and [...]

I resigned from work this week and in the midst of facing this life change, I had some new thoughts about where it is that we get our strength and how our ideas about God and prayer can have both an adverse or a positive effect.

I’ve heard somewhere that people tend to fall into two [...]

After accusing my wife of not being a ‘real’ Christian on the way to work this morning (which naturally pissed her off) and telling her how I’m thinking of giving up writing this blog, I’ve decied to come clean and admit to myself and the world that I’m probably not a Christian anymore.

I guess that [...]

Going back to a question I was discussing about whether religion is bad for you: specifically with respect to self delusion, I was in an information session at work about workplace mental health today which has made me think about it all in light of what psychologists have discovered about optimism.

Typing “optimism mental health” yielded [...]

I really dug Duncan’s post yesterday about reconciliation and saying sorry and it made me think also about something mr Spong had said in a talk of his I listened to last week.

First Duncan:

Saying sorry is not about shame John. Collective responsibility for a nation’s past does not need to begin or end with [...]

People often ask me if you don’t believe in a creator God and don’t believe that Jesus’ death on the cross is payment for your sins and don’t believe in miracles then why are you still a Christian? What’s the point?

Actually no-one has really ever had the guts to ask me that directly but [...]

Bishop Spong recently toured down under and although he is not everybody’s cup of tea, he is able to communicate with an audience that would rather see churches disappear off the face of the earth.

Like it or not, there are many scholars picking over the ancient texts of the Bible with a critical eye to [...]