Monday, October 31, 2022

Following Jesus is costly

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 In my theology reading group this month we are discussing, The Cost of Discipleship , by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I now realise that I am read...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Who is my neighbour? Surely, not "them"!

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What would it be like to not have a home? To have no country. To be wanted by no country. To be constantly on the move, searching for safety...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Initiatives to alleviate poverty that empower

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 Robin and I are giving a talk this evening at The Village Academy on "When Helping Hurts.." based on the book by the same name....
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Fact Collecting by Robin McKenzie

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Fact Collecting Child of the enlightenment  Going from one extreme to the next  Throw the baby out with the bathwater  Purging that which ca...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Why did Christianity go from a marginal sect to a dominant force in the Roman Empire?

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For many years Rodney Stark was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He wrote an introductory college sociology text t...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Contrasting ways that Asians and Westerner's think about theology

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 In the theology reading group over two months we discussed Asian Christian Theology: Evangelical Perspectives , published by Langham. It is...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

The battle for succession: from King David's sons to 21st-century American evangelicalism

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 At church we have just started a sermon and study series on the book of 1 Kings in the Old Testament. To get the big picture of a book of ...