Immutable God

I’m always thrilled when people ask me to write about a particular topic. It’s nice to know that people are reading and actually interested in the things that I have to say and in my take on whatever topic comes to mind. Here’s one that came to me...

First, Remove the Plank

Ales Rarus – A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog » Have Christian Bloggers Lost the Plot? Funky Dung, over at “Ales Rarus”:http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/, considers an “interesting...

Forgiveness and Trust

Richard asks: A friend of mine asks: “have u truely forgiven someone if you still cannot trust them?” Good question: what say ye? “#”:http://theconnexion.net/wp/?p=1910 Forgiveness does not necessarily beget trust. Forgiveness simply means that...

Literal Truth

Rushan had a question posed to him recently that requires some attention, I believe: bq. “I can no longer accept the Bible as literally true, am I still a Christian?” If you read my “previous article”:http://open-dialogue.com/blog/?p=213, you...

Fundamentalism

I don’t have a problem with fundamentalism, _per se_, though I suspect that I technically don’t fall into that category of religious faith as the definition stands currently. The word ‘fundamentalism’, as applied to religion, varies in its...

Who’s the More Dysfunctional?

Some things just won’t let me alone until I write about them, and this is one of those things. I read in the news yesterday that Saddam Hussein had taken to protesting his own trial by going on a hunger strike. Add this to his other antics – shouting,...