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This is not the first post in this series, so to understand “where I am coming from you might read these (if you have not) first: Biblical understandings of human gender: Part One: Beginnings Biblical understandings of human gender: How to read the Bible: Verses are meaningless Biblical understandings of human gender: How to read [...]

I seldom post here about current affairs, I never post about popular culture. I am breaking all the rules here. But I have been thinking a lot recently about humour. Clearly timing is everything, and as part of timing fitting the words or actions to the context. As far as I know, but what would [...]

The war that the West has been pursuing in the Middle East has produced largely debatable results (for the people, the results for the big oil companies may be clearer) but we overlook the “collateral damage”. In Iraq 66 churches have been attacked or bombed since June, 2004. The latest attack (on 31st Oct) cost [...]

Jim West has some funny ideas. Not least about NZ, he really should visit us some time, that way his comments would not look like dilettantism ;) Just the other day, you’ll find it only 39 pages back in his archives (at a mere fifteen posts per page), he posted a piece about New Zealand’s [...]

It has been years since I did one of those answer some daft questions and find out which great theologian you are like thingies, so since some of you have posted these: I write like David Foster Wallace I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! I tried. But this is all [...]

Theophrastus made a really interesting comment on my post below, the discussion deserves to be “promoted” to a post of its own. Ma(r)king space Early on texts had no divisions, they were simply a string of letters. In the case of languages written with alphabets like Hebrew just consonants. Thswsdffclttrd. So during the centuries various [...]

I’ve been thinking more about Sri Lankan theologian Vinoth Ramachandra’s post Who Says “No” to “Mission Trips”? I offer these guidelines for very short visits by Wealthyworld Christians to other places: If there are more than 5 people it is not a missions trip but rather a “coach party”. If you stayed with the people [...]

If that last post seems rather grim, to remind me that there is another side to Scripture, Jeremy posted a link to my humour in the Bible podcasts. Jonah is, of course, a hoot :) and much of the story telling in the Hebrew Bible is garnished with smiles, but not only the Old Testament. [...]