It’s been a fairly common complaint that Christians are so against abortion that they are blind to other ethical issues.The most recent person I have noticed saying this is Paul Windsor:

Since when was abortion a bigger ethical issue than the deaths of children caused by global poverty due to an improper distribution of the world’s wealth? There are babies on both sides of the birth event - in the USA and abroad - that need to be protected with equal zeal.

While I don’t want to provide an excuse for ignoring social evils other than abortion, I’ve never been able to shake the idea that abortion is a greater evil than other issues and always has been.

Here are three reasons I come to that conclusion: Continue Reading »

I’ve made a few additions and one subtraction to the list of links in the sidebar. Please note that my linking to a blog or a website does not indicate I agree with all or even most or even any of the things written there! This blog being mainly for my own benefit (it would be for Paula’s too if she ever got on here ) I’m mainly providing a quick way for me to get to certain webpages…basically because I haven’t figured out RSS feeds :).

So here are the additions:

1) Tim Chester. Not really new. I had him there but inadvertantly hid him from public view…which meant he was hidden to my view too. Fixed that problem.

2) Vinoth Ramachandra. Known about this guy since University when he spoke at a TSCF camp. Have read a couple of his books and have been interested in his ideas ever since. A Sri Lankan theologian with a wider worldview than most Westerners.

3) Thomas Jay Oord. An Open Theist, this guy majors on the theology and philosophy of love. I disagree with much of what he says, but he is worth an ear because he’s a great example of engaging with a broad spectrum of disciplines and bringing Christian ideas to bear on them.

4) Kiwi-made preaching. A place where preaching is being contextualised to New Zealand culture.

5) The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love. Just find it fascinating. Not a Christian site (though with some Christians involved), these people recognise love as so important that they’ve set up an institute to research it and apply it in different areas of study and life. Speaks openly about love and religion and science.

It seems that the extended silence on Doug’s blog Bounded Irrationality was not the silence before a storm of posts unleashed on the blogosphere, but instead was the silence of a man who doesn’t have time to waste on a blog anymore.

Yes, Bounded Irrationality is no more.

Doug is perhaps the only person close to traditional Lutheran I know and I enjoyed his insights. I hope he still pops his head in here from time to time, but without a blog of his own his foray’s into the world of blogging - even as just a reader - may die out as well. We’ll see.

says Father Des Reid in answer to the question: What would you say if you could give advice to your young self just as you begin seminary. (As recorded on Andrew Denton’s “Elders” series).