You won’t find better parody than that which isn’t intentional. Having spent a short time now observing the actions of The Emerging Church myself and my good friend Luke stumbled across an apparent similiarity between the logo for The Emergent Village and The Onion Since Emergent theology is rampantly postmodern and you just can’t parody [...]
Archive for October, 2010
The Emergent Onion
Posted in Apologetics, Christianity, Debates, Exposition, Philosophy, Satire, tagged brian mclaren, emerging church on October 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Are Insane Clown Posse Christians?
Posted in Blasphemy, Christianity, Humour, Music, Reviews, Satire, tagged god, ICP, insane clown posse, miracles on October 14, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Insane Clown Posse have claimed they believe in God and have immortalised this in their latest single “Miracles”. The Guardian reports the breaking news that, apparently, they’re evangelical Christians. I don’t read anywhere that it says that but given their penchant for telling scientists to stop ruining the mysteries of life it fits quite nicely [...]
Virginia Ironside and moral outrage
Posted in Debates, Ethics, Philosophy, tagged Abortion, euthanasia, guardian, sunday, virginia ironside on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I might suggest that the most horrific thing going on here is not that Ironside would want to end the pain and suffering of her child. Surely any loving parent would be deeply saddened and distressed by seeing their child in incredible amounts of pain.
Notes from the Crucible
Posted in Christianity, Film, Philosophy on October 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
What follows is my notes from a short lecture I gave entitled “A Christian Rationale for Teaching The Crucible” on the evening of a performance of extracts from the play by some of my students. A Christian Rationale for Teaching The Crucible The Crucible tells the true story of the famous Salem Witch trials of [...]
Jesus and the Talmudic Tradition
Posted in Christianity, Debates, Exposition, Research, Resources, Theology, tagged defiance, eyes, healing, jesus, mud, pharisees, sabbath, spit, talmud, tradition on October 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
John 9 gives us an account of Jesus’ encounter with a blind man whom he healed, much to the annoyance of the Pharisees. Cultural nuance is missed in our dealing with such texts. Jesus’ decision to spit in mud and rub it into the man’s eyes can seem puzzling unless its context is upheld.
Theology of The Truman Show
Posted in Christianity, Film, Philosophy, Research, Theology, tagged christof, existentialism, film, Philosophy, Theology, truman show on October 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
First we are introduced to Truman, the kind hearted, lovable hero of our story. It doesn’t take a whole lot of letter re-arranging and chin stroking to spot the inference. Truman is a true man. Or is he? What is a true man? Is Truman’s real personality that of what he has grown up as or is he a product of a manufactured environment?
