new creation – common or garden theologian

In the caravan with Caravaggio.

Drawing on a 2022 interview with Alister McGrath for Faraday churches, I explore what questions should be asked in the science and religion field in the future. Should we expect them to be inspired by the onward march of scientific discovery, or are we missing previously excluded and forbidden data from Christian testimony? If this cosmos is God’s cosmos then the sciences as disciplines can only offer a blinkered and deficient view. A tripartite Christian worldview will be fit for the task and offer more valid insights. I suggest that Caravaggio’s 1601 painting ‘Supper at Emmaus’ offers object lessons in constructing a more realistic view of God’s world.

A prison of possibilities.

A prison of hope? Could there be such a place? Artist Saif Mhaisen seems to think so, and I agree. Indeed, against the views of Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins, while we are imprisoned on this good Earth by our biology, this ‘prison’ is more a place of possibilities.

These Easter Days: A Week of New Creation

A theological poem for Easter on the theme of this blog: God would use us to co-create the good future, one New Creation day at a time.

COP26 and beyond: Persistence in intercession.

This post accompanies my general article “I am making everything New, and you can help, starting with COP26 in Glasgow, October 31-November 12 2021.” You can view and also download the ‘Climate Intercessors’ 10 strategic prayers for COP26 document here: https://www.climateintercessors.org/10-prayers-for-cop26-1 Here’s a great summary of the issues at stake at COP26: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56901261 Strategic PrayerContinue reading “COP26 and beyond: Persistence in intercession.”

“I am making everything New, and you can help, starting with COP26 in Glasgow, October 31-November 12 2021.”

How to pray for COP26 and the actins that must follow the decisions made.

Ezekiel’s job description: Prophet as Co-Creator.

To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die… says Ecclesiastes 3:1. This is a theological embrace of the circle of life and all the other cycles of nature. God created the lights in the sky to be signs on the Earth (GenesisContinue reading “Ezekiel’s job description: Prophet as Co-Creator.”

Which comes first: the wine or the wineskin?

JUST LIKE the chicken and the egg, this question is an ‘origins’ problem. So we’d better start at the beginning! “Let there be Light!” This is how Elohim God starts creation, out of nothing, using nothing, from nothing. Simply by God’s Word speaking Into Being. Amazing things, words. Especially when God is speaking. At first,Continue reading “Which comes first: the wine or the wineskin?”

I am doing something new

We breakfast in the morning. We can choose whether to eat the same thing as we had yesterday and the day before, or we can opt for novelty. During one season in their history, the wanderers in the wilderness were told not to rely on yesterday’s manna, but to discard what was certain to decompose,Continue reading “I am doing something new”