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Category Archives: The Blogosphere
Ten Years of Blogging: 2003-2004
In ten days’ time, it will have been ten years since I started blogging. Although I have some rather ridiculously huge posts on the backburner at the moment, a number of which may never see the light of day, I … Continue reading
Posted in The Blogosphere, Theological
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Your Blog Recommendations!
In another part of the blogosphere there has been a Christian blog survey taking place. While I follow a few dozen of the blogs listed, I was disappointed to see that so few of my favourite blogs were mentioned. I thought … Continue reading
Posted in The Blogosphere
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Brad Littlejohn’s Review of Doug Jones’ Dismissing Jesus
Brad Littlejohn has been writing a very extensive series of posts reviewing and responding to Doug Jones’ recent book, Dismissing Jesus. It is seldom that one is treated to such detailed interaction with the argument of a book, exploring its … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Reviews, The Blogosphere, Theological
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Links 2 – 17/8/13
This week’s links post. Once again, I will be posting links largely without comment. These particular links weren’t chosen because I agreed with them, but because they piqued my interest or amusement in some manner. I might have strong disagreements … Continue reading
Posted in In the News, Just for Fun, Links, On the web, The Blogosphere, What I'm Reading
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Online Discourse, Leadership, Progressive Evangelicalism, and the Value of Critics
The following are a few loosely related issues that I have been thinking about at various points over the last few days, in light of the millennials conversation and its aftermath. I have made a number of these comments in … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, The Blogosphere, Theological, Theology
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Why Are My Posts So Dense And Lengthy?
Almost every time that one of my posts is widely shared on Facebook and Twitter, I can predict with some certainty that I will receive several remarks among the length and style of my writing. These remarks run the gamut … Continue reading
Questioning the Questioners
I have just had a piece published over on Threads, a follow-up to yesterday’s post about millennials and the Church. Within it I call the popular emphasis upon questioning among millennials into question: Our questions reveal the terms within which … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Ethics, Guest Post, Society, The Blogosphere, The Church, Theological, Theology
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The New Purity Ethic
It has been almost two months since I last posted here. I don’t expect to post much over the next couple of months. I wasn’t even intending to post anything today but, after writing the following in the form of … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, Sex and Sexuality, The Blogosphere, Theological
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A Lament for Google Reader
After seven years, Google Reader will be closed on July 1, 2013. Perhaps Google thought tonight was a good night to bury bad news. This isn’t the end of the road for web feed users. Services such as NewsBlur and … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, In the News, My Reading, On the web, The Blogosphere
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Guest Post on the Body in Leviticus
I have guest posted over on The Big Bible Project, on the subject of lessons that we can learn from the significance given to the body in the book of Leviticus: The book of Leviticus has been the death of … Continue reading
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