Monthly Archives: July 2009

Importance of Authorship?

How has our cultural addiction to authorship and intellectual rights coloured our understanding of the differing standards of “authorship” from ancient cultures?
Why do you think it is that pseudonymous and anonymous authorship of Philosophy and Theology has all but vanished? Would Ecclesiastes be anonymous in the 21st Century?
To be clear, I’m talking about the publishing [...]

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Global Climate Treaty

I’m so tired of the detailed interests of certain groups preventing movement toward action. Why do we think we have the right to stall any progress because our every little demand is not met?
Remember when Canada had agreed to Kyoto and then pulled out because we found out that it might cost us something? It [...]

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Loving Understanding

I love, love, love this post over at the Emergent Village blog. It is a really great articulation of why we see so much misunderstanding and presumption when there are dialogues between those who would call themselves emergent christians and those who would call themselves more traditional protestant or evangelical christians. The the discussion going [...]

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