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Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
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Every now and then I dip into Richard Briggs’ book It’s been a quiet week in the global village. It’s light, thought-provoking and the format of a series of reflections or vignettes on Christian life and mission in the contemporary world works for me. Today I saw this in it.Seems to me that we’re not good at imagining what we really want for a perfect day. But then, fortunately, these things are not ours to decide. The way the God lifts impossible burdens off our shoulders is always one of the things I’ve liked most about him. It makes life more interesting. It makes it liveable.
Seemed to fit with some other blog entries I’ve read recently.
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Emergent Kiwi’s musings on coffee, newspapers and Sunday church reminded me of this prayer that I’ve had pinned up beside my desk on-and-off for the last few years. It’s by Richard Foster but I saw it in the book The Art of Prayer: A Pathway to Spiritual Growth by Meryl Doney.
Somehow, Jesus, I like praying with a cup of coffee in my hands. I guess the warmth of the cup settles me and speaks of the warmth of your love. I hold the cup against my cheek and listen, hushed and still. I blow on the coffee and drink. Spirit of God, blow across my little life and let me drink in your great life.
Ammmmmen.
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Just been listening to an interesting programme on Science Fiction and what it tells us about our human hopes and fears on National Radio via a RealAudio link. There’s a selection of NZ news and reports plus the live feed at the top for those of you who are overseas and missing out on familiar voices.
Delayed coverage is also available on an XTRA web site
XTRA: Broadband: News: National Audio
Useful too if your PC interferes with AM radio reception.
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For all you interested in cyberculture I found this today: The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview
It is a large collection of materials drawn together by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University.
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Maggi Dawn posted a comment on my blog entry about “Darwin and Fundamentalism” with a reference to book on Victorian times and how that related to Darwin. I’ve gathered some links to web sites with Darwin and Victoriana information so I thought I’d add them here for those who are interested.
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Just whipped through John Polkinghorne’s little book Traffic in Truth: Exchanges between Science and Theology which, like the Darwin book I blogged about earlier, provides an easy entrance to thinking about the relationship between science and religion. It reads like the combination of an introduction and conclusion from one of his other more lengthy books – at 54 pages it’s small enough to skim through in an single sitting. In his overview of the roles of chance and necessity in the universe he says,Evolving fruitfulness seems to require a compromise between reliability and change. Too reliable a world would be so rigid that nothing new took place; too changeable a world would be in such a state of flux that nothing would ever persist in it.
When I read it I instinctively thought of the church – those that are too reliable and never venture into new things unless they are certainties and those that refuse to hold onto traditions and structures that are life-giving and are always looking for the next-best-thing. An emerging or reforming church need both chance (life-giving novelty) and reliability (life-giving traditions).
There is an official web site for John Polkinghorne with information about him, his work and talks and with links to science & religion resources.
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I’ve been intrigued by both Jonny Baker (jonnybaker: new year recommendation) and Paul Fromont (Be Extraordinarily Loving) writing about Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch’s “The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church”. Given that I’d have to order it in from overseas I was pleased to find that the publisher Hendrickson have a sample chapter available on their web site. Now I can have a look at what’s been impressing them.Go to The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church. There are PDFs of the contents, introduction and a sample chapter.
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Came across this the other day. I like haiku (is that the plural?) so the idea of a new one each day appealed to me.
You can submit your own and add your comments too.