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For those that can read Dutch: Terug Naar Je Maker. Here is my haphazard translation of the front page: BACK TO YOUR MAKER Valued Visitor, It is 2009, Darwin Year. Exactly a hundred and fifty years ago, scientist Charles Darwin published his seminal book “On the Origin of Species“, wherein he introduced the theory that [...]

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Real Live Preacher’s series of video clips on Hell, this is for Christians, who want to know/understand what the Bible teaches on Hell. The first clip is an introduction to the series, what to expect, some background on where the series came from, 6 minutes – The second is sharing “Just data, no judgement calls, [...]

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For many years, I’ve been a fan of endurance sport, be it cycling (mountain biking), paddling, running (trial running FTW!)… I’ve discovered being a fan (of participating) doesn’t mean I successfully motivate myself to do it often enough. Typically I have to enter for a race in order to motivate me to train regularly enough [...]

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I consider this to be a universal truth: only God can convert people. In the context it is most often heard, it is advice to evangelical Christians in their efforts to evangelise their religion. It suggests the evangelist should not get too concerned about whether they are successful or not, it is not by their [...]

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Peter Rollins, one of my favourite authors-that-I-haven’t-read-yet, but-his-books-are-waiting-on-my-shelf, and-I’ve-read-his-blog (create an acronym out of that one!) has an interesting post: Fundamentalism isn’t too violent, it isn’t violent enough. His primary thought is “fundamentalism is an impotent movement”, and compares it to war. For the truly radically violent, those that are “violent enough”, those that accurately [...]

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This article seems to have made its way around certain circles in the blogosphere. I first stumbled across it at a site named FutureChurch (dotcoza). It presents an idea that I will be referring to in the near future, an idea that will help frame some of my discussion. For now I’m sharing it without [...]

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I attended a talk at NG Gemeente Stellenbosch-Sentraal’s discussion group for “Our Religion and Science”* before, it was quite interesting to see what they were up to with their discussions. (*That doesn’t translate well. “Die Wetenskap” is “The Science” – incorrect in English, and it isn’t the plural, “the sciences”.) In any case, of particular [...]

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I work in a very international office, there are many nationalities present. Taking just countries in the European area, I can think of people who are: Spanish, French, Dutch, Swiss, Italian, German, British, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Israeli, Greek… I quite like the diversity! Greeting today, a Spanish guy said “I’ll hopefully see you [...]

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This post was promised as a follow-up to Sadducees and the Afterlife. That makes this the third post in a series of three, the first was Hope. Here’s the paragraph I pruned from the previous post in this series — you need to read that post for this to make sense: I love this piece, [...]

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