Monthly Archives: May 2007

Evolution: On a slightly more serious note…

Posted on May 31, 2007 by kenbaker

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 … Continue reading →

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Evolution finally proved

Posted on May 30, 2007 by kenbaker

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

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Wilberforce: “feelingly alive…”

Posted on May 29, 2007 by kenbaker

  “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 … Continue reading →

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The woman at the well?

Posted on May 28, 2007 by kenbaker

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

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The Bluffer’s Guide to Theology

Posted on May 25, 2007 by kenbaker

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

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The Bible as Pornography

Posted on May 25, 2007 by kenbaker

      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 … Continue reading →

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John Piper: The Supremacy of Christ

Posted on May 24, 2007 by kenbaker

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

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Ricky Gervais on Creation

Posted on May 24, 2007 by kenbaker

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?

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Movements in Victorian Christianity

Posted on May 24, 2007 by kenbaker

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 … Continue reading →

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Worried? Notes on forthcoming exams

Posted on May 21, 2007 by kenbaker

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 … Continue reading →

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