The years so far: 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2011

I created this current blog on October 19, 2011. The following are some of the principal posts during its first year and my ninth year of blogging.

September 2011 to August 2012

1. Chariots and Water

2. What Does it Mean to be ‘Biblical’?

3. Friendship

4. In Which Alastair Takes the Inadvisable Step of Making Comments on Economics

5. New Exodus

6. Protestantism, Eucharistic Participation in Christ’s Flesh, and Transubstantiation

7. Abortion and Personhood

8. Of Playing Taboo and Unpacking Suitcases

9. Scottish Gay Marriage Consultation

10. Some Lengthy Thoughts on Women’s Leadership; A Closer Examination of Junia, the Female Apostle; Representation and Ordination: Of Sons and Wives

11. In Defence of Inefficient Bible Reading

12. How We Forgot What Sonship Means

13. Blogging Through Chauvet’s Symbol and Sacrament: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2i, Chapter 2ii, Chapter 3, Chapter 4i, Chapter 4ii, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, The Hidden Functions of Religion

14. The ‘Atheistic’ Character of Christianity and the Question of Christ

15. New Year, New Covenant – A Message for the Start of 2012

16. Tebow’s Faith and Ours

17. Summary of Edwin Friedman’s A Failure of Nerve: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

18. Towards a Kenotic Anthropology: Part 1, Part 2

19. Some Quick Thoughts on ‘Biblical Masculinity’ and the ‘Feminized Church’

20. On Tattoos, Body-Modification, the Market, and Identity

21. Tarrying with the Tragic

22. Introversion and Why Evangelicalism is Doing it Wrong

23. Why Mark Driscoll is Damnably Wrong

24. Is YHWH a War Criminal?

25. Theology of Clothing Book Plans

26. An Unromantic Thought for St Valentine’s Day

27. Finding Joy in the Vapour

28. What’s Wrong with the Evangelical Gospel?, A Better Gospel

29. How to be a Popular Blogger (by Someone who Isn’t)

30. Scripture as Performance

31. Modest is Hottest?

32. The Whore and the Bible

33. The Institution of Marriage, Same-Sex Unions, and Procreation

34. Scorn and the Culture Wars

35. Mediations Wrapped in Mediations

36. Sex and Death on the Threshing Floor

37. Very Rough and Rambling Jottings on the Church and Social Media

38. How to be More Influential than Justin Bieber

39. The Fighting Shepherd

40. Information Addiction and the Church

41. On Triggering and the Triggered: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Triggering and the Triggered in the American Conservative and Some Further Thoughts

42. Why I Believe in Pre-Marital Virginity