While reading Memoirs of Moving On by Dorothy McRae-McMahon, I found this passage incredible. It is rare to find such an unambiguous example of the super-natural. Dorothy had a son Christopher who, at two years of age, went into autistic withdrawal and stopped speaking entirely. The cause was undiagnosed until much later, when Dorothy’s sister…
Suppose you wanted to write about what God is really like, about God’s intention for us, about why God lets us suffer. Being a good storyteller, you decide to get the message across by weaving a dialog with God into a fictional setting. So you come up with a gripping story line and then put…
With my two kids constantly competing with each other, being ungrateful and selfish, I wanted to help them to appreciate what they have and act more generously. So over a week or so, here was my three-part sermon: 1. What is appreciation? Appreciation can mean both understanding (e.g. “I appreciate what you say, but I…
Michael Goheen spoke on Hope 103.2 Open House recently about how we can evaluate the modern world based on a Christian worldview. He claimed that three principles characterise the Christian worldview: The world was created good by God The world is fallen God is redeeming the world We can turn these into three questions when…
John Wyatt presented a neat introduction to Peter Singer’s moral philosophy on Hope 103.2 Open House recently. He summarises the foundation of Singer’s ethics thus: Instead of treating all human life as equal, recognise that the worth of human life varies. Value depends on an ability to choose. Take responsibility for the consequences of your…
In Science and religion revisited, Larry Buttrose voices an extremely unbalanced criticism of the Christian Church. Nevertheless, I thought this bit was well worded: Around four centuries ago, the church began a gradual decline in power against the nation-states and the rising entrepreneurial class, against increasing literacy and the reason of the Enlightenment. From the…
