Comments for Conversational Theology

Comment on A new definition? by Richard

Richard — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:32:25 +0000

It certainly demonstrates some confusion.

Comment on A new definition? by swiftypete

swiftypete — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:44:46 +0000

Maybe it means he or she is a Christian who is sceptical about whether the church should operate its own political or cultural agenda as an end in itself.

Comment on I don’t want a republic by Scott Ferguson

Scott Ferguson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:28:59 +0000

I found the last book extremely disappointing. The sense of wonder and suspense built up through the first book and the horror of the spectres introduced i the second is dashed to bits i the third. I enjoyed the god bits, the angels and even the dash of conflict in Coulter’s character. However the resolution - teen sex - left me saying, “Huh?!” It was quite anti-climactic. I was also disappointed that Pullman tries to make spectres the result of opening rifts between worlds. That didn’t make sense and left me quite unsatisfied. All in all I never got that, Of-Course-Why-didn’t-I-see-that experience that the first two books promised. As I have writyen in my own blog, the same failing is found in Rowling’s little series.

Comment on A new definition? by Steffen

Steffen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:16:47 +0000

Isn’t that usually what you call yourself if you “admire the Sermon on the Mount but don’t believe in God,” i.e., you haven’t actually ever read the SoM?

Or maybe s/he means Christian as an ethnicity?

Comment on Various by Laurence

Laurence — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:35:53 +0000

Mark Kermode is awesome, in fact, he’s better than that- he’s wittertainment at its most wittertaining!

Do you find yourself wanting bad films to be released just so that you can hear a rant?

Comment on What do your children need most? by Ros

Ros — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:28:11 +0000

Thanks for that perspective, Jill. It’s good to know that the theory works in practice, too.

Comment on Summer progress by Diana Frazier

Diana Frazier — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:12:09 +0000

Glad Philadelphia (Glenside) got a mention. And that’s the Jersey Shore (not New Jersey shore)…we girls who grew up there are particular about that!

Comment on Summer progress by Marc Lloyd

Marc Lloyd — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:23:57 +0000

I found a lump too.

Henry VIII certainly did the royal progress thing, didn’t he? Esp. to pacify the North etc.

Comment on What do your children need most? by jill

jill — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:52:01 +0000

Both of my older sisters were missionaries when their kids were small, and I would say that their kids have phenomenal character. Some of them have suffered from jumping from school to school, however, and those who did want to go on to university were slow to start it. It also did leave their kids with a lot of more complex things to struggle through on their own spiritual journeys (things like, “why didn’t God give my parents enough support to stay on the mission field”), but that too is good for spiritual development. My one sister has said that she wishes her younger kids had been able to have the cross-cultural experiences her older kids had.
I think it depends on what is most important for our kids — to be successful by modern consumerist standards or to be spiritually wise and committed to their faith. It we care about the former, then it would be a huge sacrifice to leave behind a “good”education or health care. If we care about the latter, then the mission field will open kids up in ways that our culture and upper class educational institutions never could.

Comment on Summer progress by matthew

matthew — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:21:27 +0000

I’m a rebel at heart, and temperamentally anti-establishment. And a Cromwell fan (the posh church in RTW is King Charles the Martyr - I mean, really. I keep wanting to change the sign to King Charles the Tyrant.)

But, otoh, we watched Trouping of the Colour on Saturday (on TV), and I was alarmed to discover a lump in my throat…