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The Blog of a Pregnant Log* by Jane Prentice

(NB - log = theological student.)

Being pregnant whilst studying at Ridley has its ups and downs.

For a start, Michael's normally so delicious cooking begins to need avoiding... camembert in particular. And then there's the waves of nausea that just don't really allow for much eating at all.

On the up side, one gets a unique perspective into various bible passages that pick up on images of pregnancy, childbirth, labour and child rearing! (Psalm 139 - you knit me together in my mother's womb (wow! it took a pregnancy test to even know it was growing!), Romans 8 - …

Atheism on the ropes by Arthur Davis

Atheism is stridently anti-religious, but does it have anything more to offer?

Two Phils: Philip K. Dick vs the Philokalia by Andrew Bowles

Philip K. Dick is one of the most influential sci-fi writers of the twentieth century. Many of his major works have been turned into films that you would recognise instantly: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and lesser films such as A Scanner Darkly and Paycheck. The characteristic theme of Dick’s stories is the ambiguity of the personal identity that we base on our memory and perceptions, all of which can be implanted, erased, or altered by drugs, computers and virtual reality. His characters are constantly haunted by the possibility that they and the world they live in are an…

Missing the boat on postmodernism by Arthur Davis

Postmodernism is big news. We Christians, with our commitment to truth, have rightly sat up and taken notice. I went through undergrad reading books with titles like The Death of Truth and Truth Decay. But I've become increasingly unhappy with some responses to postmodernism. There is now a wide range of disdainful and overbearing reactions online, and even respected Christian leaders, with all due respect to them, are not immune. Here is a series of Christian myths about postmodernism.

Postmodernism is relativism. Sheer relativism is certainly one byproduct of postmodernism, but to reduce postmodernism to relativism is a lazy…

When in the thick of suffering by Arthur Davis

When suffering is so raw for our friends and family, how are we to respond?