I’ve begun posting some video interviews on The proGnosis I conducted with Peter Baker back in February. Peter is one of the ministers of Highfields Church in Cardiff. One video will be going up every day this week (including the weekend) so look out for them. I apologise for any jitters in the sound—if anyone would like to buy me a new computer it’d solve that problem!
Here’s one video that won’t be going up on The proGnosis. Peter’s answer to this question was the one that stuck most in my memory. I asked Peter, How have you changed theologically through your years in ministry?
I’ve been asked to organise a series on Ecclesiastes to run over the summer. The best known bit of Ecclesiastes, made famous by The Byrds and their ‘to everything turn, turn, turn’ and by funerals, is the bit where it talks about a time to be born and a time to die, a time to cast away stones and to gather them together (Eccl. 3:1-8).
I don’t know how I came across this book, probably a free give away from
Well, at the closing ceremony for
Modernism has had us believe for years that we’re getting increasingly cleverer than people of years gone by. I don’t believe it! It’s all tied into the idea of progress that we make advancements in civilisations and so society progresses. We have this tendency to think that people thousands of years ago were stupid. I started to stop believing this a few years ago after reading Augustine’s Confessions (or at least an abridged version of it because I’m not clever enough for the full version!