The Anti-Manichaeist

I decided to drop one of my classes here in Sweden as I didn´t have time to do both of the classes and my independent projects with my seminary in MN and try to learn Swedish, and have a life and post here.
I also am going to try and use a one hour […]

I am volunteering with an outreach team tonight and tomorrow night at a celebration being held by the university that is next to my seminary here in Sweden. Earlier in a conversation, one of the Christian converts here in Sweden shared with me how he was part of all nighter church service that would […]

I am glad to hear that Tom Delay is likely to have to face the music for how he has abused the ethical rules of the House of Representatives. Incidentally, he attends the church my family attended when we lived in Texas twenty-some years ago when I was between the ages of three and […]

I received a copy of the latest Prism E-pistle from Evangelicals for Social Action. It included a letter from Ron Sider about Bush´s budget proposal. He wrote,
“When the king is concerned with justice, the nation will be strong, but when he is only concerned with money, he will ruin his country.”Proverbs 29:4…Every budget […]

I am reading right now a book titled Transforming Mission - Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission. You can find a readers guide to it, here. I believe that Missiology should be central for us Christians, as we deliberate on praxis and doxy, inasmuch as we should view all cultures, including our own, as mission […]

I saw this movie twice this past weekend. I found it to be part science fiction, part teenage rebellion movie that mixes dark humor with an affirmation of familial and self-sacrificial love and that satirizes pat, easy answers to life´s difficult questions. I think it also affirms a belief in God, ultimately. […]

I had a good weekend, visiting friends in Sweden.
Right now is a busy time for me and so I don´t expect to post so much. I am still sick some, but it´s not so bad right now and I hope to heal soon. I´ve been doing a lot of prayer for […]

I just got a serious letter from Save Darfur.
New Analysis Claims Darfur Deaths Near 400,000Experts estimate 500 people a day are dyingIn the most comprehensive statistical analysis to date, experts have concluded that close to 400,000 people have died in Darfur since the conflict began over two years ago. The Washington-based Coalition for International Justice […]

Gracias a PublicEconomics for a good post that links to a paper presented at Harvard that analyzes statistically the process by which the Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church vote to determine who will be the next Pope.
The question they try to tease out of the data is how best to explain changes in voting […]

As you may know, there is a new pope in Roman Catholicism, Pope Benedict XVl, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. As a USAmerican, I had been cheering for candidates, not unlike how so many people around the world cheer for US presidential candidates. And so I, along with others, had hoped for someone from […]