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Abortion is a fraught question, most (or at least very many) people have experiences and life commitments which invest the issue with deeply emotional resonances, and many have more direct personal experiences that intensify the power of the issue to...

Salvation is by grace, therefore we cannot say Abraham (for example) lost his salvation when he failed to trust God’s promise but accepoted Sarah’s invitation to sleep with her servant Hagar and get a son by her. If salvation is […] The pos...

Before we start: No the Bible does not talk about ‘homosexuals’. The word was only coined (in German) in 1869 and the collection of ideas if expresses in particular at of a sexual orientation may only have emerged a little […] The p...

Over a few years I have been watching with interest different friends’ responses to the various ‘hot button’ issues that emerge. The most recent, and one of the most interesting the NZ Government’s decision to call on the state broadcaster [&...

White privilege is invisible to white people, just like water is invisible to fish. The case of some friends of mine is instructive. They are white as you like, Kiwi through and through (though whether Pakeha or plain vanilla Tauiwi […] The pos...

I’m reading Gushee’s book Changing our Mind.1 While reading, I posted a short quote on Facebook, which provoked interesting discussion, and happily no vitriol. One of the points made there, which was also made by Gushee’s main critic back in [&...

In a post I missed back in June, Jackson Wu takes up the idea that the Bible’s story is dystopian. It will surprise no one that this idea resonates with me. I’ve recommended this blog, also, before, but this post […] The post The Bi...