Something Imaginative

Year: 2013

  • A Theology of Delight

    One of the fascinating discussions that I’ve had recently (today in fact) is with Mark Clavier, Dean of Residential Training at St. Micheals College, Llandaff. As is often the case when you wander the halls of a theological college, you find yourself entering into discussions that have tremendous theological value. This one I found to…

  • A Man Walked Into a Bar

    A Short story written for the Geek and Sundry “Let’s Write” vlog. Thought I’d give it a go Armand was a dead man. He knew it, and frankly, it was a good way to die. The bar behind him was filled with cheers and laughter. Even the Old Storyteller, one of the Aesir, was back,…

  • The Litteral Adam

    This is one of those problems that’s been bugging me since I began reading a blog post about why, theologically, we _need_ a literal Adam. Annoyingly I couldn’t find the blog post again in order to take the points individually, but the general debate is based on the problem outline by Peter Enns in a…

  • Death and Josephine (unfinished)

    Josephine had fallen in love, and she was sure it wasn’t usuall. She had heard all her friends talk about love, but for her entire 24 years, she had never really understood. She had never truly understood that longing, that yearning, that desperate need to be close to someone. She didn’t really understand the concept…

  • Down with the Con-Dems

    Well, it seems that coalition are selling off the post office. I can’t belive how angry this has made me. In the worst rececession for years, the Conservatives have finally managed to sell off everything that was publically owned. The NHS is gone, the Post-Office is going, all because their ideology is that business will…

  • Charismatic Leaders : Is there milage in this philosophy?

    I was challenged today over the role of Charismatic leaders in the Church. There is a feeling that the only way to draw people into the Church is through Charismatic leaders. No, I’m not here talking about “Leaders filled with the Spirit”, but leaders who personable, and have that magnetic personality that draws people to…

  • NaPoWriMo : National Poetry Writing Month

    As it is the first day of national poetry writing month, I am going to try to keep this blog updated with some of my offerings. I am mostly going through Steven Fry’s an ode less travelled, trying to expand both my appreciation of poetry and my skill. The man is a very good writer…

  • Survival Craft : Tips and Tricks

    What Is Survival Craft? To say that Survival Craft is a Minecraft clone is close, but not entirely accurate. Klauus, the creator, felt that Minecraft wasn’t simply deadly enough. Survival Craft, then, is a game that looks, and in some way feels, like Minecraft (but with better graphics), and allows you to do some of…

  • Tiamat and the Madonna and Child

    In Babylonian legend, Tiamat is the chaos creatrix. She creates the Babylonian gods, and the world, and then plots to overthrow the same gods because they seek after order, unlike her. This results in a series of battles which probably typifies the changing of deities in Babylon at the time. The god Ea tries, and…

  • Change and Taxes, well, mostly change.

    Death is through to be something “unnatural”, or so we are taught by by our Christian Doctrine. Through man’s disobedience sin and death entered the world. In Genesis 3 the assumption is that Adam and Eve are immortal (though no such claim is made), and that beyond Eden there is death, seen as the punishment…

  • Restarting Demon threads in Python

    Having just spent over an hour trying to find how to do this, here is my contribution to the problem. Say that you have a thread that you have called start() on, and your run() method terminates with an exception, or quite naturally (for example, your listening to a socket, and it gets disconnected). Your…

  • Richard Dawkins Congratulates Wales

    … for being Atheist. Source : The BBC There’s something rather odd about being congratulated for having no faith. Perhaps in the same way it’s rather odd to be congratulated for having faith. Perhaps the worst thing about the article is Richard Dawkins being his usual vitriolic self, by making such sweeping statements as: He…

  • Genesis, and the rise of People, and Man and Woman

    While reading handy pull-out debate of Women Bishops in the Church Times (Church Times, 18 January, 2013), I came accross the article by Judy Stowell. She begins where the debate about women always begins : Genesis. She makes the point that when we first meet Adam, the Dustling, the person made of Dust, he stands…

  • Who’s Afraid of the Devil?

    Evil and Salvation – the devil you know? whos afraid of the devil

  • Should Christians Carry a Gun?

    Adam Dickison said If somebody comes into steal my t.v. should I help them load of the V.C.R. and tv stand too? Maybe give them some cash for gas? I mean is my stuff so important? The gun in connection with protecting my stuff is where I’ve felt out of sync mostly In a dicussion…