Evolution: On a slightly more serious note…

Sam Brownback writes in today’s New York Times: IN our sound-bite political culture, it is unrealistic to expect that every complicated issue will be addressed with the nuance or subtlety it deserves. So I suppose I should not have been surprised earlier this month when, during the first Republican presidential debate, the candidates on stage [...]

Evolution finally proved

Before you do your Pentateuch exam next week: Finally, convincing proof of evolution that leaves no shadow of a doubt…

Wilberforce: “feelingly alive…”

  “If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.” – William Wilberforce, 1759- 1833, the British abolitionist and subject of the recent film Amazing Grace

The woman at the well?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFZgvKNWDcw

The Bluffer’s Guide to Theology

Can you identify everyone here? A free Mars Bar for the first student email… Find a solitary fact about each of the following and drop it into party conversation when the going gets slow: Athanasius, Arius,Montanus,Augustine,Anselm,Francis of Assisi,Tyndale,Wycliffe,Erasmus,Luther,Zwingli,Melancthon,CalvinBezaOwen GoodwinWesley,Whitfield,Edwards,Finney,Pusey,Newman,Muller,Spurgeon, Barth,Bonhoeffer,Bultmann,N.T.Wright

The Bible as Pornography

      From http://www.earthtimes.org: Hong Kong- More than 2,300 Hong Kong residents have lodged complaints about indecent and sexually explicit material in the Bible in a bizarre campaign to restrict sales of the Christian holy book. Hong Kong’s publications watchdog has received an avalanche of complaints about tales of incest, rape, cannibalism and violence [...]

John Piper: The Supremacy of Christ

Here’s a ten-minute clip of one of the great exponents of relevant theology of our day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYGLl0gO1dk

Ricky Gervais on Creation

Watch the clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaEj3g5GOYA and reply in the box. Offended? Challenged? Spurred to write a) angry letter b) reasoned rebuttal?

Movements in Victorian Christianity

Chartists on Kennington Common Tractarians, Chartists, Darwinists and Fundamentalists 1.Tractarians/ Oxford Movement   The Oxford Movement was an affiliation of High Church Anglicans, most of which were members of the University of Oxford, who sought to demonstrate that the Church of England was a direct descendant of the Christian church established by the Apostles. It was also [...]

Worried? Notes on forthcoming exams

Worried? No need. Here’s some notes on the final exams in Modern Church History and Introduction to Christian Doctrine  Modern Church History We will follow the same pattern in MCH and in Doctrine as we went through in the Pentateuch preparation. As follows: 10 short answer questions (20 %) 5 paragraph questions (50%) 1 (out [...]