This place is for the exploration of themes and ideas raised on my Christian Free Thinkers Facebook page and for occasional theological musings. The Christian Free Thinkers Facebook group is for those...
Not so much a faith picker perhaps, but a once in a lifetime opportunity for you to pick a Christian faith from the components currently available within Christian beliefs. Print out and use the check...
Many are aware of the Butterfly Effect: a tornado (exact time of formation, exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as the flapping of the wings of a distant butterfly several w...
The following is an excerpt from a sermon I gave on Sunday 16th August 2015: St. John, Chapter 6, verses 51 – 58 Like all Anglicans, indeed, all Christians, I occasionally visit other churches,...
It’s inevitable that somewhere along our Christian walk there will come a dissenter, naysayer or, on a good day, a genuine seeker. We learn to deal with these people with a half smile, or direct...
It was one of those nights when sleep doesn’t come easily, and I was searching for a way to explain the Trinity, following a post on Christian Free Thinkers asking the same question. Trinitarian...
This is just a very brief article to answer a question I see often on Calvinist boards: If Man isn’t born sinful then why is he in need of redemption? First of all, we have to understand...
Baptism divides the Christian Church, and a good online friend of mine, Tom Torbeyns, has been quizzing me about the Anglican understanding. So here goes: The first thing to acknowledge is that the ...
The question of Original Sin has dogged thinking Christians for the last 600 years, from what seemed a straightforward, if misunderstood, Catholic doctrine of the corruption of Mankind, to the view th...
Note: This is an intellectual exercise, designed to present a view I no longer hold. A further article here will explain the contrary view. There are four fundamental positions in theology about the ...
Group member Wayne Scott recently asked fellow member Chris Fisher about his views on the omnipresence of God, which sparked an interesting discussion. For centuries Christians have taken for granted ...
Open theism is a different way of looking at the nature of reality and God’s interaction with Mankind. For an alternative view, please see http://theologicaloverload.com/the-butterfly-effect-and...
The last couple of years have been theologically challenging in many ways other than concerning the faith itself, which remains rock steady. I seem to have arrived at the conclusion that despite effor...