Bogosity

Did you ever play that “team building” game where you have to pretend that you’re on the Titanic and the lifeboat can’t take your whole group so you have to decide who to leave behind? I think the supposed point of that exercise is that everyone has valuable attributes and that you can never [...]

I was just reading about a family who went through the most awful trauma. After being forced to travel by foot for several days, while the wife was heavily pregnant, they were unable to access accommodation and the woman was forced to give birth in very unsanitary conditions and in utter disgrace. One [...]

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 [...]

I almost forgot to reveal the answer to last week’s homework about how to exist with dignity and honesty in a society where you feel you have to hide parts of yourself most of the time.

The truth is that you can’t. I think Jesus demonstrated that to us fairly strongly, as have the many [...]

I have just a few minutes to jot down some half formed thoughts and get them out there. I’ve been reading about spirituality apart from religion and commenting on my Dads blog and thinking about liberal Anglicanism and humanism and whether I actually believe anything at all.

But I’m thinking how it’s not the belief [...]

Is liberal / moderate Christianity mostly harmless? I was discussing the Science Fatwah series with some friends the other night and one of them exclaimed that liberal Christians are mostly harmless because they just pick and choose what they want from the Bible until their faith challenges no-one and means nothing.

For me this [...]

Another Brisbane Anglican blogger has started up (see the Brisbane Anglican Bloggers list in the sidebar for the others (and here’s hoping Br Nathan will get some divine inspiration to post on his blog soon))

Foolish Times

A ongoing chronicle of experiments in faith through the eyes of the Fool.

His first post is about being a clown. [...]