Category: Theology
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Could the Internet ‘Rumble’ Christianity?
Interesting commentary piece in The Guardian: The internet has done for Scientology. Could it rumble the Christians, too? Clearly, Scientologists should be forced to justify their doctrinal lunacies – the only sadness is that other religions are apparently exempt from having to do the same. Imagine for a moment a Bashir-type interviewing some senior cardinal.…
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Being a Christian Whilst Working for a Church is Like Doing Long Jump on the Moon
I fell into conversation yesterday with a friend of a friend, who began by asking me what church I went to, which precipitated a long debate about, among other things, full-time Christian work. I’ve done it, and I was left with this impression: being a Christian whilst working for a church is like doing the…
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Does Anyone Believe in #Predestination Anymore? | Open/Closed Humans
I’ve been reading Richard Sennett’s excellent book The Craftsman – which I highly recommend to anyone interested in ideas of technology, creativity (a word he hates, for good reason) and work. It is not a book about woodwork or William Morris. Rather, he takes a broad look at what it means to work in an engaged…
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New Book Unveiled : ‘Other: Loving Self, God and Neighbour in a World of Fractures’
It’s pretty much a year to the day since I began writing my new book, and I now that the contracts are all exchanged I thought it was time to pop the lid off and start getting the word out there. Don’t go rushing to Amazon just yet – it’ll be on shelves in July…
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Reflections on Apple2 : Heidegger : Technology
Excellent time at Apple2 last night. Alistair Duncan from The Garden kick-started proceedings with an introduction to Heidegger’s philosophical framework, and how this impacted his thinking on technology later on in his life after the scandals surrounding Nazism had died down a little. Though his later language is more poetry than hard logic, Heidegger is…
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Apple2:Tool.Shed:Heidegger on Technology : Tuesday 13th Oct
The 2nd Apple event is happening this coming Tuesday. You really should be there. Apple is a Vaux production, a short series of conversations focused specifically on the interplay between theology and technology. This month we are really excited to have Alistair Duncan – an architect from IBM and member of The Garden in Brighton…