Something Imaginative

Year: 2010

  • Working 9 To 5 (ish)

    At 9am precisely, Susan DeWitt pushed open the door to the little office. She had been there now nearly 4 months, and she was slowly beginning to get used to their little peculiarities. The main part of the office was taken up with two desks. The one nearest to the door was heaped with folders,…

  • A Visit to a Greek Orthodox Church

    I have just returned from a visit to the local Greek Orthodox Church, a visit that was done as part of one of my university courses. The first thing that struck me about the worship was that it seemed some-how disconnected from the people. The congregation would arrive, chat to each other, wander out again,…

  • Wisdom, where art thou?

    Oh Wisdom, where art thou? Where is your promised rest? Upon You, and upon Your word I meditate, I read, mark, learn and inwardly digest, And my questions are answered by silence, As though they are but dust and wind. I take Your light into the world, And bare witness to it, Yet they question…

  • Worship Styles, How do we feed the Sheep?

    Being a student at an all-party college (that’s not a college where all we do is party, but rather a Training Seminary, where all traditions (Catholic/Evangelical, etc) train side-by-side) has it’s advantages and disadvantages. When I first arrived I thought that the chance to experience worship in many different forms would better allow me to…

  • Openbox on Fedora Configuration How-To

    To continue the search for a pretty desktop, I have recently spent some time looking for themes for those lesser-used desktops that actually require some configuration from the user. My first thought was to try FVWM2, having seen the pretty screen shots from FVWM-Crystal. Unfortunately, it doesn’t come natively on Fedora, and having tried a…

  • Ugly Duckling – 18 Only!

    So, for those regular reading of the blog, will know that I’ve been writing a Novel. I’ve just written an article that I think is perhaps a little close to the line, and as such I’ve password-protected it. If you are OVER 18 and want to read the post, the password is Iam18, if your…

  • Protected: Ugly Duckling

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

  • Could you be an anonymous Muslim?

    During the Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue Module that I’m following as part of my course, we are studying Karl Rahner’s idea of being an “unnamed Christian”. This phrase is more commonly though of as the “Anonymous Christian”. This is the notion that so long as you are worshipping God as best you can in your…

  • Exploring my Religion and my Post-Modern World View

    In the modern world, belief has become something of a joke. People either think that you are, in some way, in capable of rational thought, or that you are incapable of seeing why it is your belief doesn’t match the modern world. It’s a tough place to be in. The Post-Modernist View of the world…

  • The Cafe Culture

    He arrived at the cafe at 11, and made his way to a table. Today it was the turn of the top-right-hand table. It always amused him that people, in general, were creatures of habit, and because of this, it was amazing what you could get away with in plain site. He undid the top…

  • Prophetic Voices from Renewed Ancient Traditions

    I was at a lecture today at the Baptist College of South Wales in Cardiff, curteusy of my training. The interesting thing that came to light (amongst the learning about the Celtic Tradition (which I’m very interested in), the Anabaptists, and the New Monastic Movement), was this idea that prophetic voices have not been lost…

  • Paul Tillich and Intellectual Criticism

    I enjoy spending time debating; though you could have worked that out from the numerous posts on the subject on this blog. During one of these debates in an attempt to defend the Religious point of view, I made the standard appeal to experience. It was pointed out to me that the experience is often…

  • Thinking on Prayer

    Originally written: 02.07.2010 while in Lesotho. I think I should stop reading St. Thomas Aquinus, he’s giving me ideas above my station. The thought was as follows: Prayer transforms God’s power in potentia into God’s action in the world This is hardly, I would guess, a new thought, but it is a new one for…

  • Robots and Gods : Thinking about Robots thinking about the existance of God.

    While thinking about the nature of belief, it occurred to me that most people see the movement of God in their life through a high level of coincidence-type actions. When people see that their life fortuitously comes together, or improves despite some calamity, it is easy to see how this could be the action of…

  • Re-Mythologising Christianity

    Recently, I was reading “Stubborn Theological Questions”, by John Macquarrie. An interesting book which I found myself thoroughly disagreeing with. The problem, for me, was the current thrust to “De-Mythologise” Christianity. Denial of things like the Incarnation, and of explaining away Miracles as happenstance, or with other logical answers seems to be the way of…