Entries Tagged with 'Peter Rollins'
(This was going to be at the bottom of the previous post, but that one grew into a monster and I didn’t want to bury this *that* deep.) Ikon’s Easter Sunday gathering gave me goose bumps. You will need some time if you want to work your way through it, you have to listen to [...]
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Categories: Worldviews
Tags: Betrayal · Ikon · Judas · Peter Rollins
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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Categories: Worldviews
Tags: Fundamentalism · Peter Rollins · Violence
Nope, I didn’t interview him. I wish. Pieter sent me a link to a wonderful interview with Pete Rollins, partly discussing his recent book The Fidelity of Betrayal (amazon, kalahari). The interview gives some good perspective on what Pete is on about, and the kind of thing that makes me excited about… well… Christianity, though [...]
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Categories: Worldviews
Tags: Peter Rollins
About four weeks ago, Theo Geyser introduced me to Peter Rollins — unfortunately not personally, he just mentioned his latest book. At home, I immediately took a look at Peter’s blog. One of the first posts I read, as it caught my eye and resonated with my ways and thoughts: To be an atheist you [...]
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Categories: Religion and Science
Tags: God · Peter Rollins
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