The Creator God
When I looked around me today, all I saw was death, decay and icy endings, and I wondered what the hell God was thinking when he bothered to create something that couldn't last. The perfect being, self-contained and self-sustaining - why suddenly turn his hand to the needy world of temporality? When you...
Wheels Within Wheels [Part 1]
The great wheel of God rolls on, applauded by those who refuse to see the bodies of the last great people of the age crushed beneath it. Those who stand tallest are always the first to die: may the steamroller God of the edge have mercy on their souls.
The Gifts of God
If there are any gifts given to us by God, I think they come in this form: moments that we don't expect, people that are here and then gone, dreams and memories that you can hardly remember. Our lives are so fragile, and so tenuously balanced between a darkness we cannot survive and a light...
The Leeches.
It’s no surprise that the Christian Church is failing. People say the church is full of hypocrites? It is! People say the church is inward-looking, behind the times, slow to change? It is! People say the church is full of self-interested, self-righteous, self-worshipping bigots incapable of looking past their own over-inflated egos? By all that...
#1 – Introduction
‘the theologian‘ – the weekly column from backgroundbob 20.04.08 Imagine something impossible: a world where God made sense. An existence where the omniscient could be fully understood, where equality with the omnipotent was possible: imagine a place where lions could lie down with lions. Imagine the blue-black curtain of the night sky peeling away to...
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