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Author Archives: Alastair Roberts
Podcast: What’s Wrong (and Right) with “Relatability”
This week’s Mere Fidelity podcast is now online. This time around, we are discussing the theme of ‘relatability’, following Rebecca Mead’s New Yorker piece on the subject (see also Alan Jacob’s comments). Mead writes: To appreciate “King Lear”—or even “The Catcher in … Continue reading
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Infant Baptism and Faith
Last month I had a lengthy and very stimulating discussion in the comments of one of my friend Andrew Wilson’s posts on the subject of credobaptism and baptismal efficacy. Andrew subsequently posted a summary of David Gibson’s paedobaptist position from that … Continue reading
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Podcast: What Adoption Is and Isn’t
After a week off, the latest Mere Fidelity podcast has just gone online. This week we are discussing what adoption is and isn’t, both within Scripture and in society today. We take our starting point in the following quotation from … Continue reading
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Open Mic Thread 9
The open mic thread is where you have the floor and can raise or discuss issues of your choice. There is no such thing as off-topic here. The comments of this thread are free for you to: Discuss things that you … Continue reading
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The Politics of God’s Plenty
I’ve posted over on the Political Theology blog again, this time on Isaiah 55:1-5 and the politics of God’s plenty. This passage confounds the logic of our capitalist economies. As if the owner of a great market, God summons his … Continue reading
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The Loss of Pastoral Credibility in the Age of the Internet
The Internet has introduced a new level of visibility to areas of our social life, exposing certain uncomfortable realities. Rod Dreher recently wrote a perceptive and troubling piece on the way that the Internet reveals corruption and abuse within the … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, On the web, Society, The Church, Theological
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Podcast: On Divine Accommodation
In this week’s Mere Fidelity podcast Derek Rishmawy, Andrew Wilson, Matt Lee Anderson, and I discuss the doctrine of divine accommodation and its immense importance within several contemporary debates, from discussions of the Bible and science, to the morality of … Continue reading
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A New Icon of Marriage
Candida Performa via Flickr I just had a conversation in which I was reminded of this beautiful passage in Alexander Schmemann’s For the Life of the World: In movies and magazines the ‘icon’ of marriage is always a youthful couple. … Continue reading
Posted in Sex and Sexuality, Society, Theological
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Open Mic Thread 8
The open mic thread is where you have the floor and can raise or discuss issues of your choice. There is no such thing as off-topic here. The comments of this thread are free for you to: Discuss things that you … Continue reading
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Podcast: On Marriage and Donated Gametes
The latest Mere Fidelity podcast was posted earlier today. This week’s episode is on the subject of gamete donation or, more particularly, artificial insemination by donor (I expect that a later episode will focus upon IVF). This is a particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Podcasts, Society, Theological
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