It makes sense to me!

One morning as we were getting ready for our morning worship service, I looked out of the window and felt the mild wind of the morning air, made sweet and cool by a strong pouring rain. Our Burmese Pastor walked in and stood by my side and said, “this year seems to be unusual, the [...]

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The Christ and the Buddha

Christians living in a predominant Buddhist country struggle on how they can speak about their faith that makes sense to their neighbors. On the surface, it seems that Buddhism and Christianity have very little in common. We have no choice but to begin on a common pointm, start from the subject you know they are [...]

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Moltmann on Academic Theology

I started reading Jurgen Moltmann’s Experiences in Theology. I agree with Frank it is fun and enjoyable to read and judging from the few pages I had read so far, the book’s language is clear and simple but not simplistic. A characteristic very hard to find in a theology book. It is readable compare to [...]

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Nietzsche on Christian freedom

They would have to sing better songs to make me believe in their Redeemer; his disciples would have to look more redeemed!.. Truly their Redeemers themselves did not come from freedom and the seventh heaven of freedom.

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Should Christians observe Loi Krathong?

guest post by SamanthaThis is a reflection of a Thai Christian in dialogue with a missionary about a Christian’s dilemma in observing the traditional festival.
Loi Krathong or Yi Peng is a tradition that has been observed in Chiang Mai (and also in other cities) for almost 700 years now. Stories said that it was started [...]

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Karl Barth on archaelogical research

I do not like books that try to prove the rightness of the Bible by archaeological research, but the results of this research are an important help in understanding the biblical witness to Christ. However, no historical research can help us prove God’s revelation as reality. Historical research will never be an approach to the [...]

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Hans Kung on the church as the servant of the world

I was meaning to post my response to the current book I am reading this week but I have been very busy and besides my brain is not really working properly as of late (it never does anyway). I hope to make up for this next week.
I am citing here Kung’s insights about the church. [...]

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What a joyful day!

This is a joyful day for me. The books from a good friend have arrived at this very moment and I could not hold back my self from posting about it. Now I feel like a child who has been given a lot of toys and Iam so excited that I don’t know which [...]

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The church and sexuality

Over at That Strange Feeling, George has a very interesting post about church and sexuality taken from the books he recently read. Incidentally, George is my younger brother. He is running a very interesting blog that is sometimes philosophical, sometimes theological, sometimes fictional and humorous and sometimes personal and emotional. Anyway,this is what he has [...]

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Pacquiao Nation

I’m not sure if a Shalomite approved of boxing but then maybe not because boxing is considered to be a violent sport, in fact, too violent that some sectors want it be abolished.
I’m also not sure if boxing is a good alternative in settling theological debates. I definitely would opt for it rather than a [...]

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