The Anti-Manichaeist

This past sunday, I was visiting the church of one of my professors here in Sweden. His church, a member of the InterAct denomination(somewhat Baptecostal), was having a special sunday service to say goodbye to their pastor. To my surprise, all of the local christian churches from the area had sent representatives to […]

Joe Carson is still praying for and trying to find Christian Engineers that will be willing to take time out of their schedules to commune with him and others to develop a theology paper that will present why Christian Engineers ought to concern themselves with the development/enforcement of professional ethical standards for their discipline. […]

Philip Yancey has an article in Christianity Today where he describes the diversity of Evangelical Christianity, as well as its historical distinctives and his version of the tenets of what it means to be an Evangelical Christian. He begins, though, with the perceptions of the general public of white USEvangelicals*. Yancey describes both […]

I like to learn about countries by watching their films. Tonight, some of my swedish friends and I watched a swedish film called Miffo. On the way back, I was accosted by a drunk person who made me get off my bike and run away to avoid being hit(After I went to the […]

I just read James Dunn:Champion for Religious Liberty and I was very much impressed by the many testimonies to how the man has put together a strong faith rooted in the Baptist tradition, a strong intellect and incredible communication skills and a willingness to endure much slander on the basis of his convictions.
The […]

In Sweden they watch quite a few USAmerican films and a daughter of one of my family friends there is quite a fan of Johnny Depp, as you can see… 

Here is a cute kid who tried to speak Swedish with me. He was adopted from S Korea. There are a large number of people from different ethnic backgrounds in Sweden today.  

Me with Beard 

Click on the above title to read an interesting article where a Marxist, Slavoj Zizek, appraises the mythic stories in Star Wars and ends up affirming some of the basic stories of Christianity above that of Buddhism. Its a little heady, but relatively readable. My friend Tod interacts with the article, albeit with […]