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A NEW THEOLOGY
A significant theological shift occurs when we move from imagining an external deity to imagining mysterious creative reality of the Divine, being embedded in everything that exists. This new un ........
A NEW WORLD-VIEW
Scientists estimate that there are in our universe of 200 billion galaxies, each containing 200 billion stars. All these galaxies are hurling outwards through space at unimaginable speed. Our ow ........
THE NEW SCIENTIFIC DATA
Our senses tell us that the sun and the stars, move around the earth. Even though we know this not to be true, our daily speech reveals this ancient belief when we say, “the sun rises in the Eas ........
WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS?
As the saying goes, “I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not here to live up to mine. If perchance we happen to meet (same expectations), it is wonderful.” Howeve ........
WHAT IS MEANT BY RADICAL CHANGE?
What is meant by radical change? Jesus was a radical because he had a vision of the best qualities of the type of person that would usher in the Kingdom of God. He was visionary who proclaimed ........
CHRISTIAN TRADITION AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
Christian tradition and contemporary Society Looking back on my life, I would describe myself as a conservative Christian turned radical. My perspective has changed from a more traditional unde ........
RE-THINKING OUR FAITH
If your old religion no longer works, then change it. When we look squarely at the old religion, we can see an untenable discrimination of women and people of different race, culture and sexual ........
SECOND REFORMATION
According to Thomas Kuhn, a paradigm shift occurs when we look at a culture from a new window. New paradigm emerges when enough people challenge existing beliefs systems. While such changes can ........
PARADIGM SHIFT
Today, we are in a good place, because our post-modern world has given us the permission to think in different ways. The institutional church can be challenged without one being burned at the st ........
THE BEST POSSIBLE HUMAN BEING
Jesus of Nazareth discovered the kind of person who can create the best possible world. Matthew collected all these characteristics and has Jesus describing them on the Sermon on the Mount. Each ........
HAVE YOU RECEIVED YOUR PERSONAL TRUTH?
We receive the truth, not so much as invent it. Fire was discovered, no one invented it. No one invented fruit trees, they were discovered as a source of food. Horses were discovered as useful t ........
I DON’T STAND ALONE
I write these blogs, because I know that there are others who are experiencing the same thing. Even if we have vastly different starting points, we arrive at a place where we see things the same ........
WHERE IS GOD?
Instead about asking theological questions about who God is or what is God doing, let us discuss God’s location. The biblical world-view is based on a three-tiered structure – there’s Heaven, t ........
GOD AS A UNIVERSAL PRESENCE
How do you describe God? What about the God who is ‘everywhere’, a universal presence that sustains, energizes and holds everything that exists? God as a ‘universal presence’ is a presence beyon ........
WHAT IS A SACRAMENT?
The original understanding of sacrament (sacramentum) was linked to a ‘solemn oath’. that a Roman soldier made to his commander. The early Christians adopted the language of sacramentum for bap ........
WHAT GOD DO YOU BELIEVE IN?
There is an omnipotent God, who could prevent suffering, but doesn’t. There is the God who set the universe going in the first place, and who sits back and doesn’t interfere. There is the God of ........
AWARENESS IS AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS CHANGE
The only way you can align your thoughts with your hopes and dreams is through awareness. Shine the light of awareness on every situation and frustration and you will find something unresolved ........
WE CAN BE THANKFUL
We can be thankful that the church has preserved, remembered and focused our attention on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. The people who followed Jesus’ teaching have fed and clothed the poo ........
JESUS, THE GIFT
Every mature Christian, to some extent eventually experiences, a turning away from Jesus Christ towards Jesus of Nazareth. This desire to turn back to the church’s original foundations is happen ........