GospelMemes: First Thoughts
I believe that the gospel is real. By this, I mean that in a: fundamental sense that the universe is pervasively meaningful: love, beauty and life are more than emergent ephemera of biochemical...
View ArticleKickstarter project—Book on relational transformation
We have just launched a project on kickstarter to raise support to complete a book on relational transformation. The outline of the book will follow the blog posts that I did last year on relational...
View ArticleCo-opting memes: wisdom
“A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable.”...
View ArticleMysteries: Incarnation, suffering, resurrection and union with Christ.
The core memes of the Christian gospel emerge from the story of Jesus. As early Christians contemplated Jesus they, of course, drew implications for life, community, and spirituality. But, they also...
View ArticleWhat good is Christianity?
Christianity is in trouble. The intellectual and moral challenges facing it are considerable, perhaps overwhelming. Intellectually: developments in almost every academic discipline are undermining...
View ArticleRe-thinking sin and heretics
When tackling the topic of transformation, we need to identify areas that need transforming. The church has traditionally defined these areas as “sin.” But what is sin and how do we know? Do we look to...
View ArticleDoes Christianity promote tribalism?
One notable problem plaguing our species is tribalism. Raiding and war for resources and territory has gone on for tens of thousands of years and possibly longer. Furthermore, in documented history,...
View ArticleGospel hunt! beyond belief
The gospel of Mark shares a story where Jesus interacts with a man who has asked him to heal his son “if he can”. When Jesus challenges him on his faith the man anguishes “I do believe, help me...
View ArticleCultural tools in the service of human aspiration: science, art, vocation,...
“You have to know the truth before you can lie to yourself.” (comment heard during a recent meeting of technology executives) Humanity is a highly adaptive, extremely pragmatic species not...
View ArticleThe games we play
When the mathematical genius John von Neumann (1903 – 1957) sat down to figure out how he could use mathematics to improve his poker playing, little did he realize the repercussions of his inquiry, not...
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