From the daily archives:

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

How deep is your praise song? You must take this exam.

September 9, 2009

Sample questions

2. “Broken I stand, mercy I need.” Consider the possibility that “Kindle the Flame” was written by Yoda.
3. “More Lord. I must have more Lord.” Struggle to sort out the grammar in this.

Read it all. (HT David Keen)

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Debating God and morality in Dr Jim’s tea room

September 9, 2009

Jim Linville has an interesting post on religion, atheism and morality – particularly stirred by this article by Philip Davies. It is both subtle and blunt and well worth a read.
He takes (easy) aim at the Christian rhetoric that seems to suggest morality is only possible if you believe in God. There is, however, what [...]

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Fantastic – Praise the Lord for NGC 6302

September 9, 2009
hubble-image.jpg

This is one of the new batch of images from Hubble. NGC 6302 is also known as the Butterfly Nebula. It is 3,800 light years away, and so what we see is as it was before the first page of the Bible was written.
The second picture, Stephan’s Quintet is 290,000,000 light years away, so what [...]

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Jesus our mother

September 9, 2009
window with pelican

In an earlier post I spoke of a careful use of feminine language about God that did not resort simply to a sloppy feminising of the Spirit. Damian and Suzanne have some good responses, and Damian also points to a good post on the Velveteen Rabbi (I do love that name as one of [...]

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