Amongst our culture today the popular belief persists that science has become God’s pallbearer. That the more the light of science dawns, the more belief in God is relegated to the shadows of superstition. At a recent event in Brisbane, I tackled this question head on. Check out the audio below.
posted on December 18, 2016 by
Tinderization
How do we foster deep commitment to God in the Tinder age? Intended to *Provoke* … Check out this blog-post, “Is TINDER Changing the Way We Think?” here. Have you heard of “Tinderization“? Long story short, we’re each deeply formed by the medium of social media. Through facebook, instagram and twitter, we have become accustomed […]
posted on December 12, 2016 by
A Storied Faith
Intended to *Ground* Your Traverse … In my last Traverse fb post (Jan 5, 2016), I highlighted how some secular writers have found new appreciation of the Bible as classic inspiring literature. In traversing church & culture, it’s time to turn the focus home-ward. How do believers engage the Scriptures? Check out my provocative post from […]
posted on December 4, 2016 by
Traverse Vision for 2016: Jump on Board
In 2016, do you have the wisdom, courage and skills to bridge church and culture? If this is your passion, ‘like’ TRAVERSE on facebook and invite your friends to connect in, also. Kudos to Dan Paterson for carrying this Malyon College Centre since 2014, and regularly posting RZIM events on the site. Brilliant work! Dan’s influence […]
posted on December 17, 2015 by
Is Jesus Historical?
Theology cannot spill over into history. This is the charge of New Testament critics and ancient historians who are convinced that the person who confronts us in the canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) is a fictional figment of the Church’s theological imagination. Few would go as far as the mythicist route of denying […]
posted on December 17, 2015 by
Did God Command Genocide?
Anyone who reads the Old Testament with 21st century Australian eyes will be confronted with a world completely alien to their own. The people, cultures, geographies, politics and religious practices of the Ancient Near East breed confusion for the modern reader. Perhaps most difficult to make sense of, however, is the deity who stands behind many […]
posted on December 3, 2015 by
Did Jesus Rise from the Dead
The bedrock of Christian faith is the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth in history. Once a sceptic in regards to the resurrection, the Apostle Paul infamously wrote after his conversion, “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. … and we are of all people […]
posted on December 27, 2014 by
Does Suffering Disprove God? (3 of 4)
THE ARMCHAIR: A Wounded Traveller Visits a Christian Philosopher Moving to the second leg of my journey, suppose this wounded traveller is ready to ask some tough questions of the Christian faith. I’m disillusioned with the alternative answers I’ve explored. And yet, being an educated person, I know too well that suffering doesn’t just provoke […]
posted on December 25, 2014 by
God and Science: Friends or Foes #1
Much ink has been spilled in recent decades expressing the increasingly popular opinion that science has disproved God. Since Darwin’s publication of the Origin of Species in 1859, science has become a tool employed to develop alternative explanations to the historical Christian teaching of the origins of the universe (cosmology, physics) and the origins and […]
posted on December 19, 2014 by
Suffering Through Different Eyes (2 of 4)
UNIVERSAL PROBLEM: Suffering Challenges Everyone’s View Christianity is not the only one on trial; suffering poses a challenge to every worldview. No matter who you are, you must make sense of suffering somehow. So let me begin with a question. How does what you believe explain and answer the expectations and experiences of the suffering […]