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Author Archives: Alastair Roberts
Some Further Thoughts on Men, Women, and Shame
The following are some further thoughts, following on from my post on men and shame. The issue of the relationship between women and men’s shame should be addressed more closely, because there is an awful lot going on there. I … Continue reading
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On Men, Shame, and Brotherhood
https://twitter.com/drantbradley/status/960717197776703489 A couple of days ago someone drew my attention to a Twitter thread by Dr Anthony Bradley that has been receiving a lot of attention. Within the thread Bradley seeks to explain the appeal of Jordan Peterson to young … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Experience, Culture, Sex and Sexuality, Society
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Sex in Zero Gravity
A review of mine on Mark Regnerus’ recent book, Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy has just been posted over on The Gospel Coalition website. Within the book, Regnerus describes and seeks to explain the shape of contemporary … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Economics, Ethics, Guest Post, Reviews, Sex and Sexuality, Society
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Virtue Ethics in a Virtual Age
Earlier this week, I had a thoroughly enjoyable day at Ian Paul’s Festival of Theology event, a day devoted to eight TED-talk style presentations, each followed by questions. If you don’t already know him, Ian Paul is the blogger at … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Guest Post, On the web, Philosophy, Society
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Podcast: Augustine’s ‘Confessions’, Book 6
Mere Fidelity returns to our reading of Confessions this week, with a discussion of Book 6. You can also follow the podcast on iTunes, or using this RSS feed. Listen to past episodes on Soundcloud and on this page on my blog.
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Spammed Comments
Just a note to say that I just checked my spam filter and discovered a number of genuine comments that it prevented from coming through. I’ve approved the comments and they should appear beneath the posts now. I can’t answer … Continue reading
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What Pastors Could Learn From Jordan Peterson
Last night, along with a few online friends, I watched this debate on the meaning of life between William Lane Craig, Rebecca Goldstein, and Jordan Peterson, hosted by Wycliffe College. While watching it, and reflecting upon Peterson’s work more generally … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Experience, Culture, Ethics, Society, The Church, Theological
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Easter Course and Summer Programmes
I’m excited to share with you some of the courses and programmes that I will be teaching in the next few months. Theopolis Institute Easter Course The first is a course with the Theopolis Institute on the theology of the … Continue reading
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Where to Find My Stuff
A commenter recently requested that I restart my links posts. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen: writing links posts was a lot of fun, but I did not feel that it was the best use of my time (open mic … Continue reading
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As One Having Authority
I’ve just posted over on Political Theology Today, discussing the authority with which Jesus spoke and arguing that we need to communicate this authority today: The authoritative word still retains considerable power in our day and age, even though we … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christian Experience, Ethics, Guest Post, Mark, NT, Politics, Scripture, Society, Theological
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