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Araslyn: Is There a Human Spirit?: I’d like to ask a question, Does the human spirit exist? I understand that the Holy Spirit exists, I also understand that man is a soul, but does he also possess a spirit? Can you produce any... (12/05/2009 - 00:36 | 5 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: How many churches invite believers from other religions or even other denominations to speak to the congregations?: How many churches invite believers from other religions or even other denominations to speak to the congregations? I thought of this as I spoke with my father in law, who is the director of missions... (09/05/2009 - 19:00 | 3 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Should we still be making disciples?: I have argued a couple of times recently that Jesus’ post-resurrection instruction to his followers to make disciples of all nations, which we call the Great Commission, is actually more... (08/05/2009 - 15:00 | 12 comments | 5 stars)
peter wilkinson: A.N. Wilson believes again: Nice little article in The New Statesman on the return to faith of A.N. Wilson (biographer, novelist). He had been an atheist, but began to have doubts. The article can be found here. (Having... (04/05/2009 - 15:15 | 1 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: Two Faces of Pluralism; or, What does faith look like under conditions of irreducible pluralism?: 3 May 2009 has been called Pluralism Sunday, when “Progressive Christians thank God for religious diversity!” What we have here is a particular face of pluralism. It is a more limited... (03/05/2009 - 18:14 | 12 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Does the future lie with the global church or with the emerging church?: There was an interesting article in the UK Times yesterday about the global success of ‘US-style muscular Christianity’ - that is, evangelicalism. The article is by John Micklethwait and... (03/05/2009 - 11:09 | 5 comments | 0 stars)
Araslyn: Another Gospel: Jesus warned us to beware of another gospel, and there’s been many gospels contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ, but today another gospel has materialized, and that gospel is a very... (01/05/2009 - 03:51 | 9 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Wright and the Gentiles who keep the Law: Peter’s review of Wright’s Justification has sparked some interesting discussion of Romans 2:13-16 and the question of Gentiles keeping the Law. Wright suggests that when Paul says that... (30/04/2009 - 18:10 | 16 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Thoughts on the good news: JR Woodward has been running a fascinating series of guest posts on what good news looks like in a local city context. My contribution can be found here, but I recommend taking the time to look... (30/04/2009 - 16:23 | 0 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: What is a missional church? And why I think Mark Driscoll is wrong: I forget quite how I got there - by what tortuous cyber-trail - but I came across a post on Mark Driscoll’s Resurgence blog promoting his new book Vintage Church, in which he touches on the... (30/04/2009 - 16:14 | 7 comments | 2 stars)
peter wilkinson: Justification - Tom Wright / A book review: I’ve just finished reading Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision, Tom Wright’s latest book, which is a response to John Piper’s The Future of Justification: A... (29/04/2009 - 20:01 | 11 comments | 3 stars)
Araslyn: Knock Knock Who's There?: Meditation opens the door to the spirit realm. The choice is entirely yours as to which spirit you associate with when you meditate. We all have the ability to commune with the spirits. When you... (28/04/2009 - 20:01 | 0 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: Evidence and Interpretation: A Response to Tom Gilson: I’ve made several OST posts that discuss what I think to be the relationship between evidence as it relates to faith in God. It is always interesting for me to see what others have to say about... (22/04/2009 - 15:55 | 8 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Guerrilla Worship - Liverpool Flash Mob : Jonny Baker has drawn attention to the video of a rather moving flash worship event that took place on Easter Saturday in Liverpool, organized by the Dream network - a good example of well-... (20/04/2009 - 12:11 | 1 comments | 5 stars)
Andrew: Wikiklesia Volume Two: Taking Flight: I wrote a chapter about Open Source Theology for the first Wikiklesia Project publication, Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution, published in 2007. A... (20/04/2009 - 11:17 | 3 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: Reflexive Religious Faith: In some recent conversation, Desert Reign brought up reflexivity and how it relates to religious faith. I have been thinking about a post relating to reflexivity and religion for a while. Reign... (18/04/2009 - 05:37 | 11 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Open Source Theology on Grace-Centred Forums again: A couple of years ago I drew attention to a discussion on Grace-Centred Forums about the manifest demerits (‘Makes Leonard Sweet look like Splenda!’, ‘open sores theology’,... (15/04/2009 - 11:30 | 4 comments | 0 stars)
javelin: Is God real?: I have searched on this site for a discussion about realism and can’t find one! Christians believe in God. A rather obvious statement one might think, but is it? Many Christians act as if there... (14/04/2009 - 06:28 | 38 comments | 0 stars)
javelin: Newbie questions: Greetings from New Zealand. I found this site somewhat by accident. I have been in disscussion with someone about the divinity of Christ and googled “before Abrahan was I AM” to find an... (13/04/2009 - 00:21 | 4 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: The resurrection from the dead: The death and resurrection of Jesus, locked together in a brief three-day period, constitute the defining moment of Christian belief. It is here that the light of God’s love for humanity burns... (11/04/2009 - 16:56 | 6 comments | 0 stars)
mikereeves: A fresh angle on sabbath (or "The joy-filled sabbath): I come as a “new boy” into this arena with some trepidation, unsure as to whether what I bring has perhaps already been said. I’d like to suggest that much of what is said about... (08/04/2009 - 13:22 | 1 comments | 0 stars)
peter wilkinson: Sir Toby Redivivus?: Bowing to popular demand, and overcoming with manly fortitude and resolution some theo-literary setbacks not entirely disconnected with opensourcetheology.net, the author of The Sir Toby Chronicles (... (06/04/2009 - 11:46 | 88 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: Faith and Evidence: What is the relationship between faith and evidence? Logically speaking, it seems to me that there are two consistent possibilities: 1) faith and evidence match one to one. This entails that... (01/04/2009 - 14:39 | 4 comments | 0 stars)
John Ridley: Does God Punish or Discipline?: This is a response to Alario’s questions on the Origins of Morality topic, as there seems to be a lot of conversation going on there already without diving into Penal Substitution! Alario... (26/03/2009 - 20:30 | 1 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Literal this that and the other: Mark Driscoll, who is beginning to inhabit the darker regions of my consciousness like some baleful theological bogeyman, recently announced by Tweet that Charles Haddon Spurgeon is his favourite... (26/03/2009 - 19:43 | 38 comments | 0 stars)
jpmay5: Had the resurrection already taken place?: Today, I was reading 2 Timothy and came across a puzzling verse. I had been reading NT Wright earlier, Christian Origins and the Resurrection of Jesus: The Resurrection of Jesus as a Historical... (26/03/2009 - 01:32 | 1 comments | 0 stars)
christian4moses: Dealing with secondary theological modifications: This is the first time I post something here and Im not really sure if this website is intended for this, if not plz notify me and ill remove or modify my post. So Ive been reading Raymond... (23/03/2009 - 11:14 | 5 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: On the Origins of Morality: Supernatural, Biological, and Relational Possibilities: Back in 2007, Christianity Today hosted Christopher Hitchens and Doug Wilson in a debate entitled: “Is Christianity Good for the World?”. They exchanged letters six times, with Hitchens... (21/03/2009 - 03:10 | 99 comments | 1 stars)
Andrew: Richard Rohr on the emerging church: There are some good clips of Richard Rohr talking about the emerging church that have been provided by the Center for Action and Contemplation. I came across them via a post on the Emergent... (20/03/2009 - 12:02 | 0 comments | 4.5 stars)
Jacob: Is to die without God to die utterly alone?: Today, Albert Mohler editorialized about death and God in The Christian Post—“Dying Without God—The Absence of God at Life’s End.” Among other claims, Mohler says that... (17/03/2009 - 00:41 | 3 comments | 0 stars)