by Barney | Jun 22, 2015 | Worship
I grew up in a church which was home to two competing attitudes to Christian worship. One of them was expressed when people emerged from a service grumbling that they “didn’t get anything out of” the worship that morning. The other was manifest in a common response to...
by Barney | May 19, 2015 | Theology
“I think religion has got everything appallingly wrong and it has been terrible for us in sexual terms” declared Diarmaid MacCulloch in an interview about his three-part BBC series, “Sex and the Church.” The series is an attempt to prove his thesis by examining the...
by Barney | Apr 17, 2015 | Creation, Culture
A review of the ReFrame course Why did God put us on the earth? What is his purpose for art, science, law, finance, literature and education? What does he want Christians do in those areas? For many Christians the answer to these questions is that we are there to...
by Barney | Mar 16, 2015 | Philosophy
“Modern exegetes are like us. They work and think at the end of a history. In this sense, the one thing that would be criticisable would be the naive claim of an exegesis that held itself to be without a history, as though it were possible to coincide, without the...
by Barney | Feb 12, 2015 | Culture, Theology
A Book Review It all lies in the fact that men think there are circumstances in which one may deal with human beings without love; and there are no such circumstances. One may deal with things without love; one may cut down trees, make bricks, hammer iron without...
