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12th
March
2010
Tim Keller is a pastor of a big church in NYC who has written some excellent books. In this article attempting to reconcile religion and science he posits a third way between fundamentalist creationists and militant atheists for which evolution becomes a world-view rather than just science. He provides some useful answers to some key questions often faced by those who want to be faithful to God and the Bible yet not blindly reject the vast body of scientific evidence supporting evolutionary biology. Well worth reading.
Tags : atheism, christian, creation, evolution, keller
Categories : Christianity, Religion, Science |
28th
August
2009
As part of my renewed blogging vigour over the last few weeks I’ve been updating my blogroll – getting rid of some dead links and adding a few fresh ones.
Let me just draw your attention to a few of the ones that I read on a regular basis
- Scot McKnight – this guy is a theology professor in the US who was written some good books and blogs about a heap of interesting religious topics. The problem with his blog is he makes so many book recommendations that I just can’t resist so my amazon.com account, and subsequently my credit cards and bookshelves, become overloaded.
- Hello Internet – Ben has his own video show, and also posts a lot of stuff about movies, music, books, and comics so if you’re into those sort of things (and most of us are into at least one of them) then check it out.
- Slacktivist – another Christian blog and one of my favourites. This guy has a prophetic voice that I tend to agree with most of the time. In a well reasoned, often humorous and occasionally scathing way, he examines some of the excesses and inconsistencies of the Christian Right/fundamentalists (mostly in the US but still somewhat relevant to the rest of us). Recent examples include those crazy anti-rock & roll Christians who think U2 is satanic, the misguided creationist Ken Ham (who I’m sad to admit is from Australia..), the kooks claiming universal health care will lead to mass euthanasia, and of course his ongoing brilliant step-by-step demolition of the Left Behind series. Check it out if you think you will resonate with that.. otherwise maybe best you don’t.. but he does post on a lot of other interesting stuff as well.
- Guitar for Worship – my mention of U2 in the last section inevitably leads me to Karl’s blog which is based on guitar and worship (nothing like a nice obvious blog title) – not only does he love The Edge but he also writes humorous yet insightful posts on guitar, tone, worship, and gear. Biggest problem with this page is it fuels my gear and gadget habit. Every time I read his page I have to fight the urge to immediately go on eBay and hunt for pedals (often unsuccessfully). But I just can’t stay away (from both ebay and his blog)…
Was going to write some more but I can smell a nice curry cooking and wanted to get in some GarageBand time before dinner, but with those 4 blogs you’ll have hours and hours (or longer) of material to keep you busy… enjoy!
Tags : Blogs, christian, Links
Categories : Blogs |
8th
July
2008
Although I love my music, and am involved in church music, I must admit I rarely listen to any Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) – I just find in general it’s a bit lame or boring or not great quality. Even with fairly 
good bands like Jars of Clay or Kutless or Switchfoot I tend to find myself listening to the album once or twice and then filing it away. They often have one or two good songs but for the most part it’s fairly boring.
So I was pleasantly surprised with my first listen to the band Casting Crowns. I’ve heard their name plenty but never felt compelled to listen to their music until I picked up their CD Lifesong at Koorong recently (partly due to a recommendation in a recent book I read by Roger Olson). Well it’s a great CD. Musically very tight, melodic and interesting. The main male vocalist sounds a bit like Neil Diamond in places but that’s not necessarily a bad thing 
And the lyrics are honest and original and generally down to earth. Only a couple of lines in one (otherwise very cool) song I didn’t quite see eye to eye with theologically, but at least the fact that I have listened that intently shows how much the music and lyrics have otherwise got me hooked in. I keep intending to take this CD out of my car and play something different, but after at least 5 times through I’m still keen. Well worth getting hold of.
Here’s one of my favourite tracks – Praise you in the storm
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Tags : ccm, christian, lyrics, music, Video, youtube
Categories : music |
