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Sadducees and the Afterlife

January 6th, 2009 · 15 Comments

In my previous post on Hope, I talked about what I consider to be arrogance, when people think they know what’s best for others whose context they have no experience of (in the section “Thoughts about Destroyers”), in an attempt to promote understanding of the fact that where humans find hope, and how much they [...]

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Christianity as a Spiritual Path

November 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Four weeks ago I shared a YouTube clip of John Dominic Crossan. Today, a clip by the other author of the book I’m busy reading (for months): Marcus J. Borg: For now, I’ll let this clip speak for itself. We should return to this topic a couple of posts hence.

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Get the Good News Right (2 of 3)

October 8th, 2007 · 20 Comments

This is the second post in a series of three, aimed at making evangelicals in the field more successful in their ministry to atheists. The first post was How to Convert an Atheist. Go and read that one first if you have not already done so. What exactly is the “Good News”? Evangelising Christianity is [...]

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