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Longer Articles
Ten Reasons Why I Am Not a Fundamentalist April 2012 PDF
Ten Reasons Why I Am Not a Fundamentalist April 2012 PDF
Blogs and Short Articles
Uncovering Spiritual Covering October 2013 PDF
Rethinking Repentance September 2013 PDF
What is SIN Anyway? July 2013 PDF
Is God an Algorithm? July 2013 PDF
God, Church, and Collapsing Banks July 2013 PDF
Roots of Islam 1 Feb 2013 PDF
Roots of Islam 2 - the History Feb 2013 PDF
Roots of Islam 3 - the Koran Feb 2013 PDF
Roots of Islam 4 - the Morality Feb 2013 PDF
Gospel Reliability - does it Matter? Aug 2012 PDF
An Introduction to Church Bullying April 2012 PDF
What Kind of Community? Feb 2012 PDF
Shafts of Doubt from a Clear Blue Sky Oct 2011 PDF
Love, Hate, and the God Delusion August 2011 PDF
The tyranny of feelings April 2011 PDF
Why ARE we so contentious? Feb 2011 PDF
What makes us human? Jan 2011 PDF
On Prayer Dec 2010 PDF
Uncovering Spiritual Covering October 2013 PDF
Rethinking Repentance September 2013 PDF
What is SIN Anyway? July 2013 PDF
Is God an Algorithm? July 2013 PDF
God, Church, and Collapsing Banks July 2013 PDF
Roots of Islam 1 Feb 2013 PDF
Roots of Islam 2 - the History Feb 2013 PDF
Roots of Islam 3 - the Koran Feb 2013 PDF
Roots of Islam 4 - the Morality Feb 2013 PDF
Gospel Reliability - does it Matter? Aug 2012 PDF
An Introduction to Church Bullying April 2012 PDF
What Kind of Community? Feb 2012 PDF
Shafts of Doubt from a Clear Blue Sky Oct 2011 PDF
Love, Hate, and the God Delusion August 2011 PDF
The tyranny of feelings April 2011 PDF
Why ARE we so contentious? Feb 2011 PDF
What makes us human? Jan 2011 PDF
On Prayer Dec 2010 PDF
Uncovering Spiritual Covering 30th October 2013
One of the highlights—if I can call it that—of the legal calendar this year in Singapore has been the
drawn-out trial of the senior pastor of one to the largest churches on the island on charges of criminal
breach of trust and falsification of accounts.
The amounts of money involved are mind-boggling—in US dollar terms it’s about $19,000,000 . . .
Rethinking Repentance September 2013
I’m halfway through listening to an audiobook—The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus.
The book was written in AD 75 and recounts the history of the Jews starting with the Maccabees and
proceeding to the Jewish War and the final destruction of the Jerusalem temple in AD 70 by the Roman
general Titus.
I started a bit reluctantly expecting it to be dry and boring but in fact it’s been quite the opposite. It’s a
fast moving story, racy, full of blood, gore, torture, individual valour, family intrigue, betrayal etc. It makes
great reading, and it’s the best possible way to get a detailed insight . . .
God, Church and Collapsing Banks July 2013
God speaks to me from the most unlikely directions
I’ve been reading a book called Fool’s Gold about the 2007-8 financial crash. It’s written by a Financial
Times journalist named Gillian Tett.
Bring interested in the subject, I found it a reasonably good read, but it was only right at the end, in the
epilogue, that it really hit home to me. Here she moves from straight history to a more subjective
reflection on her personal reactions, and here I found something that seems relevant not just to the way
in which banks and hedge funds work, but also to the workings of institutions in general and in particular
the church . . . (1203 words)
Is God an Algorithm? July 2013
“Norman, what do you think about gay marriage?”
That was Linda, from across the table over dinner at the Singapore Swiss Club under a dark warm
tropical night sky.
I launched into my standard answer.
“Marriage is essentially a contract. An exclusive contract between two people in which they pledge a
commitment to love and respect one another, and to refrain from sexual relations with anyone else as
long as they live. It seems to me that if two people wish to enter into a contract not to have sex with
anyone else, then . . ((978 words)
What is SIN anyway? July 2013
I’ve always had trouble understanding just what this word—SIN—means. It gets used often enough in
church but the definitions tend to be a bit vague. It’s like, “If you don’t know what it means then by
definition you must be doing it.”
Here are two questions, or examples, of the sorts of quandary I have sometimes found myself in . . .
(1323 words)
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