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Year: 2011

  • A Cursory glance at the influence of Babylonian Mythos on Christianity

    I have been reading a book on Babylonian and Assyrian Myths and Ledgends, and they have sparked some interesting theological links. I thought that it would be best to make some small posts as I went through the book, so that I didn’t forget the ideas. When Abraham left the city of Ur and struct…

  • Mary’s Strange Family – Sermon

    Readings: 2 Samuel 7.1-11,16 Psalm 89.14, 19-26 Romans 16.25-27 Luke 1.26.38 Sermon- Mary’s Family

  • Origen’s origens of Angels.

    I have been reading J. N. D Kelly’s Early Christian Doctrines (Fith Edition), and have come accross a rather interesting piece that comes from the writing of Origen, as he explains the mystical beginnings of the world. Before the ages they were all pure intelligences, whether demons or souls or angels. One of them, the…

  • Final Year Essays

    I have said for a long while that I would upload my final year essays. Many of them might be of use to some people. They are Christian in basis, but the topics are varied. There are essays that cover scriptural studies of the Antichrist, through to ethical studies of the place of the Bible…

  • Sermons

    Okay, so perhaps I should have uploaded these individual, but I haven’t. Mostly because this blog has begun to fall a little out of use since the invention of Google+. That and the entire getting used to being a Deacon. I should also note that I’ve not spell-checked them, as I’m dyslexic, it’s much easier…

  • Spirit Journey

    Nostros took the first caravan going anywhere, plying his small trade as a bandager and maker of simple herbal potions. He also offered his small skill with the sword. The bigger caravans were well provisioned with clerics and warriors, better able to protect themselves. Nostros found himself with a place with a small poor caravan,…

  • The First Month In The Job

    So It’s nearing the first month as an Ordained Deacon. I could have written many posts in that time, but I haven’t. Mostly because time has vanished. The oddest thing is that though I’ve not really done anything, I’ve found my time being full up with little bits of this and little bits of that.…

  • What happened to the blog?

    Dear Gentle Reader, Sorry for the silence. This year has been a very busy, exciting and difficult year for me al at the same time. I have been ordained, gained my degree, and suffered from an extended bout of sickness, which I’m hoping I’m finally coming out of. Normal service will resume, with I hope…

  • Playstation Update 3.61 : First Adopters

    Sony have finally released the long-awaited updated as part of their roll out of the restoration of the Playstation Network (PSN). The only trouble is that demand seems to be outstripping their servers. It appears the best way to update the PS3 at this moment is to download the firmware onto a USB stick, and…

  • Protected: Dissertation – Final Draft Update! – 21 May 2011

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

  • Ancient Possibly Christian Books Found In Jordan

    70 metal bound books have been found in a cave in Jordan by a Bedouin. These books appear to date to the first century, and may be the oldest collection of texts in existence. Written on lead leaves, no bigger than credit-cards, these 70 books could reveal a wealth of information about 1st Century Christianity,…

  • Justified by Faith

    The theme Justified by Faith has been very much on my mind recently, with it coming to the fore as I re-read Romans in the context of a Biblical Studies class on the book. Part of the class was to use E.P. Saunder’s approach to Romans to rediscover a more authentic reading of Romans that…

  • The Carpathian Conundrum

    The BBC has recently launched a new Science Fiction series called Outcasts. It starts 5 years after a colonisation expedition has arrived on a new planet that has been called Carpathia, after the ship that showed up to rescue the survivors of the Titanic. Carpathia only has one major town, called Forthaven. The society is…

  • Jesus Christ : the Liminal Man

    When reading Bishop Spong’s book, something struck me about an idea he had put forward of the river Jordan. That Jordan River was also thought to offer a door way into the promised land where God was believed to reign as king. [*] The Jordan, then is a liminal place. A Place on the boundaries.…

  • Bishop Spong : Removing the image of the Divine Rescuer

    In his book, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Bishop John Shelby Spong outlines many of the problems which he sees in modern-day Christianity. Though I agree with the statement, I’m not sure that I agree with his conclusions. Bishop Spong seems to want to remove the Theistic aspect from Christianity, which while I can…