Category: Morality

Should we be out in the streets celebrating the killing of Osama Bin Laden? Should we be cheering, dancing and slapping each other on the back? The discussion surrounding this question is getting pretty heated. At first I was...

Tonight I had dinner in Honduras in the company of three Argentines, one Swiss, a Dane (I almost said Danish) and a Honduran, who all work in various Christian ministries. We got into a very interesting discussion about...

I've been listening to this song on the Christian radio and I just have to say something. It's like a fire in my bones! This is Amy Grant's latest contemporary Christian catchy hit tune and a part of it goes like this: We pour...

Having read the Birth of Tragedy in the company of friends, said company has now moved on now to Stanley Hauerwas' Peaceable Kingdom. Obviously, Nietzsche says nothing about Hauerwas in his writings, and as far as I can tell,...

Here's an interesting project highlighted as Lausanne. I asked if there was a draft proposal, but apparently there is no specific code being discussed yet. (Bonn, 26.10.2010) Christianity wants to show that it totally rejects...

A few years back an alumnus of my school, a pastor, killed his wife in a domestic dispute.  I remember very clearly the description of a phone call between him and one of the professors who had been close to the couple. The...

HG Wells told the story of a 19th century scientist with a time machine in his famous story The Time Machine. Now the 2002 Christian film Time Changer (recently released on DVD) features a theologian from the same era who uses a...

Check out this very disturbing interactive map about world corruption, produced by Transparency International. It ranks countries on a scale of 1-10 according to the perceptions of country experts. The top (least corrupt)...

A friend and I are working on a series of classes on salvation. The goal is to arrive at a biblical synthesis of two themes that often come in extremes: spiritual vs. social Christianity. You could also call it otherworldly vs...

Yesterday I almost updated my Facebook status to say, "Happy Black Friday's Eve!" But then I thought, "that's a tad bit too cynical. I'll wait and be cynical after thanksgiving." I just can't help wondering whether the pairing...