Like a bird on a wire,
Like a drunk in some old midnight choir,
I have tried, in my way, to be free.
Category Archives: Theology
The end of the world – is not nigh
Well, I had thought that this might be my last ever blog post, but seeing as how New Zealand is still in existence, Harold Camping’s prediction of a rolling earthquake happening at 18:00 hrs. local time and continuing round the world may be wrong. Sorry about this, you’re going to have to put up with my ramblings and occasional rantings for a while longer.
His website says that the day zero has arrived, though by the time you click on the link it may have disappeared (been raptured or possibly ruptured?). I’ll check again tomorrow to see if it says -1 days to go.
Love Wins
Rob Bell’s new book ‘Love Wins’ seems to have stirred up an awful lot of controversy for a book that no one has read as yet (it’s not published until the end of March). It seems that some Calvinist/Reformed thinker/theologian in the United States saw the promotional video
and declared Rob Bell to be an Universalist. Some other deep thinker managed to sum everything up in a tweet; And a perfect storm arose in the blogo-twittersphere, or at least the Calvinist/Reformed micro-segment of it. Question, if you can sum a 300? page book up in a tweet, how come your sermons take so long?Harvey Edser has been blogging on the theme of Universalism on and off for the past few weeks and covers it in greater depth than I could. Maggie Dawn and Fred Clarke – in two posts deal with the controversy and defend Rob Bell much more eloquently than I could so I will just point you in that direction.
All I want to say is watch the video I don’t think he says anything particularly evil, and if you are interested buy the book when it comes out. It will probably be, for a theological book a good read, because it will have a narrative. If nothing else, Rob Bell can tell a story and I think that makes all the Calvinist/Reformed thinkers and sitters in ivory theological seminaries jealous.
A Scotsman in Suburbia 