Archive for October, 2009

This movie has been out for some time, but I recently saw it and want to recommend it here. I have for some reason been avoiding it, thinking it would be an hurtful experience which good movies often can be. It is powerful, and creates the feelings I am sure the director wanted. This one [...]

Me, myself and I
I ended off my previous post in this series with a mild criticism on how the western church often views itself as a group of individuals satisfying ones own individual needs by the product offered and packaged as Church. It is a clear tendency in the western Church that members dissatisfied with [...]

This is the actual answering machine answer from this school. It is due to a conflict and a lawsuit against the teachers by the parents.

What is the cost of progress?
Modern travel, modern educational systems, modern medicine, and modern food production are a few examples of the ways in which humanity’s lot has improved through the progress achieved during this era.
However as the twentieth century waned a collective questioning of the assumptions of modernity emerged in many quarters, not [...]

Post-modernity
I have been discussing the topic of post-modernity with colleagues from many religious backgrounds.
You might be aware of the cultural phenomenon of post-modernity if not its philosophical underpinnings.
Trying to describe or approximate post-modernity as a philosophy or culture is no easy task. Just type it into wikipedia and you will see what I mean.
But as [...]