Month: August 2014

Salvation is a mystery: Emotions are a phase.

Posted on By pukeko
Last night the programme I had travelled to Aussie to participate in was screened. As part of this, I was on Twitter, using my professional hat, and discussing issues around management, particularly access. But one of the things that the… Read More

Evanjellyfish, or against growth ministries.

Posted on By pukeko
One of more noxious movements among the evangelicals has been the development of growth ministries. These people use the tools of public relations and marketing to encourage people into church. To do this, they tone down the message, make everything… Read More

Projective theology.

Posted on By pukeko
Yesteday we walked a fair distance: longer than is our habit on a Sunday. Our Sundays generally start with church, and we then go into the country. This photo was taken yesterday, and yes, we live in a wonderful part of the world, and yes, those… Read More

Beware jealousy.

Posted on By pukeko
There are very few passages that talk of the family of Mary and Joseph. This is one of them: Jesus had brothers and sisters -- three brothers were named. His trade was named: he was "the carpenter". The locals could not see him as a rabbi: they… Read More

Blinded by their arrogance.

Posted on By pukeko
I first met leftists -- real ones -- when I finished the fifth form (grade 10, year 11) and got a job for the summer shoving sheep carcasses. A fair number of the students at the factory were members of the fourth (or fifth. internationale). They… Read More

Scriptural suicidality.

Posted on By pukeko
Before I am going to going to talk about Job I need to do a little bit of defining. Suicidality is now a technical term: it means in effect, that you have contemplated suicide. Questions about suicide are routine at work, and part of outcome scales… Read More

Virtue is not its own reward.

Posted on By pukeko
Roosh has shamed me. Because he has managed to get at least part way through the Nicomachean ethics, which I have never attempted. But The logic of the book is fairly simple.
  • To be happy is to be virtuous.
  • You are content and happy when you do what is…
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