Matthew Henry John Bartlett

Newtown room in happy house (ours), $100/wk
A neocalvinist looks at a painting
Football, the kindgom of God
Interview with Mark Roques

A principle all Christian businesspeople ought to hold:

… work ought to be necessary; it ought to be good, it ought to be satisfying and dignifying to the people who do it, and genuinely useful and pleasing to the people for whom it is done.

(from Wendell Berry’s essay Conserving Communities)

The life of Christ
by Chinese artists

The sermon I preached yesterday

Behold the great goddess of the underworld

Tips for Christian philosophy students
Letter to a young artist
March 2005 Marilynne Robinson interview

Bartlett Projects site updated

One kingdom, two kingdoms, or a glorious third way? [via Rance D]
Broadband speed test

Speed up PHP strings

A Mennonite poster Stanley Hauerwas mentions from time to time:

From a lecture at Yale , another Hauerwas quote:

… thinking that Christians are still in control, and so we need to have a third language where we can all get along because we’re still in control, and the Muslims and the Buddhists and the Atheists aren’t. Look! We lost! Christianity lost! Isn’t that terrific? We’re free. We don’t have to have theories about pluralism anymore. Hell – we just gotta get in there and mix it up. We’re free.

I’m preaching on Sunday evening at S.Michael’s Kelburn. About what, I don’t yet know. You’re welcome to come along.

We are looking for a new flatmate, again
Bartlett Projects

Choosing which natives to plant in Wellington
Genesis 1: Cosmogony [via James K]

Next time you need a new carry bag you might buy one from Freeset Bags.

I’m sorry, I’ve accidentally deleted all the comments you’ve posted in the last six months. The ISP would like $100+GST to restore from backup.

Said Stanley Hauerwas in a recent lecture ‘The End of Religious Pluralism: A Tribute to David Burrell, CSC :

… the creation of religious studies departments can be understood as the ongoing development of universities to provide legitimating knowledges for state power. Indeed, I think that’s primarily what universities do today: make sure that the way things are is the way things have to be.

… pluralism is the ideology of people in power to comfort themselves with the presumption that they’re in control of the world in which they find themselves.

McDonald’s big mac combo could be seen as the sacrament of a popular religion. Perhaps Christians should only be happy to eat McDonald’s insofar as they are happy to share other religions’ sacred meals.

Jürgen Moltmann’s journey to faith [WMA audio] (more) – He fought in the Germany army in, among other places, the Netherlands. He was captured by the British and spent time in prison camps in the UK. In one camp someone had put up pictures of what was happening at for instance Auschwitz. Seeing them, he was brought to despair at the thought that that was what he had been fighting for.

Dead-set spaccy in the fair dinkum department… Josh, Tish, Tom, Sean, Pip, Bronya, Arlene, Natas, Rob, Tash, Mike, Tim, Tim’s wife, Shane, Ben, Russell, Laura, Ollie, Neish, Eileen, Ryan, Peter, Matt, Glen, Nick, Sylvia, Todd, Lisa, Dirk, Maryanne.

Grandaddy split and leave us one last album

I’m in an “Internet cafe”!