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Why You Won’t Catch Me at a Hillsong Event
For my birthday weekend last year I was lucky enough to be in Melbourne visiting my family. They had arranged to fly me down and take me out to dinner at some fancy place in the CBD on the Sunday … Continue reading
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Tagged church, god, hillsong, pentecostalism, prosperity theology, sydney, theology, worship
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The Dangers of Contextualising Theology
In his book Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology, Daniel L. Migliore writes that ‘all theology is contextual.’ (1) By this Migliore refers to the now well-established notion of theological work being the result of an interaction between … Continue reading
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Tagged bonhoeffer, christianity, church, contextual theology, faith, god, nazis, nazism, religion, theology, thirdreich
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The Church: Relinquishing Control
I was recently chatting with a friend of mine who also works as a youth worker in his local Uniting Church. He was regaling me with a story- familiar to many of us- of the opposition he was experiencing whilst … Continue reading
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Tagged australia, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, religion, unitingchurch
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And the Sax Played On… (Or, why it’s not always a good idea to invite friends to Church)
The pressure to invite my high school friends to Church events wasn’t oppressive, but it was subtly consistent. This pressure- perhaps expectation is a better word- manifested itself through casual remarks made by my Parents or youth leaders, to the … Continue reading
