Category Archives: The Blogosphere

Scorn and the Culture Wars

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Timothy Dalrymple writes concerning the growing tendency among progressive Christians to launch vituperative and scornful attacks against ugly liberal caricatures of conservative Christians in order to represent themselves as more loving to the world. He remarks: This is selling anger, … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, On the web, The Blogosphere, Theological | 13 Comments

How to be a Popular Blogger (by someone who isn’t)

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Rachel Held Evans, one of the best conversation-starting bloggers out there, has posted on the subject of blog traffic and how to become a popular blogger. This is a subject that has interested me for some time, and I thought … Continue reading →

Posted in The Blogosphere | 8 Comments

Why Mark Driscoll is Damnably Wrong

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

This morning I glanced at the number of visitors that each of my blog posts has received over the last few months. In something that continues to be a cause of both frustration and curiosity to me, I once again … Continue reading →

Posted in Society, The Blogosphere | 17 Comments

Why There Are No Theological Problems

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Jacques Maritain somewhere makes a distinction that I find helpful between a ‘problem’ and a ‘mystery’. A problem admits of a solution – ‘can you prove Fermat’s last theorem?’ ‘is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?’ ‘does the Higgs … Continue reading →

Posted in The Blogosphere, Theological | 2 Comments

Matt Colvin on Missionary Support

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Matt Colvin blogs on the subject of missionary support: One of the goals of giving a handout to a bum is to avoid entering into any deeper relationship with the beggar: toss him some money and walk on. By contrast, … Continue reading →

Posted in On the web, The Blogosphere | 1 Comment

Terry Eagleton’s Vision of Christianity

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Over on Curlew River, John H writes on Terry Eagleton’s vision of Christianity: Prof Eagleton is not a Christian, but he is (a) highly sympathetic towards the account of Christian faith he first encountered as a student “with the aid … Continue reading →

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Links

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Alastair Roberts

Links from the last few days: *** According to Dr Scaer, the most common way people join the Church is that someone invited them. Guess what? If church sucks, people don’t invite others. They don’t think “Man, my friends have … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, Controversies, In the News, Lectures, N.T. Wright, NT Theology, On the web, Quotations, The Blogosphere, Theological, Video | 5 Comments

Against the Youth-Driven Church

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Alastair Roberts

This video has been posted by a number of people in the blogosphere. Like most others, I strongly disagree with this guy in a number of areas and believe that his argument against the Emerging Church is riddled with problems. … Continue reading →

Posted in Controversies, The Blogosphere, Video, Worship | 14 Comments

Links and News, but not in that order

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Alastair Roberts

I returned from a few days back in Stoke-on-Trent on Tuesday evening. My time back home was full of activity, but very enjoyable. As there was a wedding on, I had the opportunity to meet a lot more friends than … Continue reading →

Posted in Controversies, In the News, N.T. Wright, On the web, Quotations, The Blogosphere, Theological, Video, What I'm Doing, What I'm Reading | 3 Comments

Links

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Alastair Roberts

This morning I finished my last exam of the semester. It is a great relief to have finally completed this year at St. Andrews. It has been considerably less productive than the year before (I suspect that there has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, N.T. Wright, On the web, The Blogosphere, Theological, Video, What I'm Doing | 9 Comments