Bogosity

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m still pissed off with the latest issue of New Internationalist and their take on this “infantilization of politics”. Several of the articles have been written from the perspective of we know what’s right and we’re going to tell you what it is, yet at the same time they are saying it’s infantile to [...]

Everyone’s going to think I’m an arsehole but I just need to say how happy I feel about the blue sky today after a week of the kind of rain that made me want to travel across marshes of dead spirits and climb Mt Doom. It was like the never ending wintertime of despair [...]

Poor old Father Bob is being bombarded by atheists on every side lately. I’ve just caught up on a few podcasts, three of which had father bob talking with atheists. Sadly Bob is one of the few religious people who are willing sit in that kind of conversation and listen long enough for [...]

I’ve really had a lack of inspiration when it comes to blogging religion lately. I think there are a few factors contributing to this state of affairs:

I haven’t been interested in church for over a year. It’s just boring. Maybe it’s because having a two year old means I can’t concentrate, maybe [...]