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Thursday, November 12, 2009

The awfulness of John Humphrys

November 12, 2009

Tonight’s Question Time is one of the worst I can remember. John Humphrys has an outsize ego. Unlike David Dimbleby he can’t sublimate it. The panellists are there to allow the light of his penetrating intellect dissect them all the more keenly. The audience are there to offer a springboard for him to bore in [...]

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Christian – that’s just so passé!

November 12, 2009

I am glad that I am not the only one who objects to the way in which a growing number of Christians, especially among those who would in some way call themselves emergent, are rejecting the term Christian. They prefer to label themselves Christ-followers.
Jason Byassee has some good arguments against this rebranding.

Anyone can understand the [...]

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The oddity of plenary verbal inspiration

November 12, 2009

There are a whole range of reasons why I don’t accept ideas of plenary verbal inspiration. Even given my prejudices, though, it seems to me there are at least some reasons why it is, even within the confines of strongly conservative thinking, a very strange idea to adopt.

Jesus is never presented at any point as [...]

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