Monthly Archives: January 2012
A story of discipleship in The Office
“The Christening” (season 7, episode 7) is the most explicitly religious episode of The Office yet, and interestingly, it contains a subplot which illustrates Jesus’ teachings about discipleship. The setup: the entire office turns up at the christening of Jim … Continue reading
Filed under discipleship, DVD, popular culture
On coming late to The Great Divorce
I’ve just finished C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce for the first time. It is a strange genre of writing, certainly not a novel in a conventional sense. Somewhat like Pilgrim’s Progress, it has a series of encounters with representative people … Continue reading
Filed under book review, eschatology, theology and literature
Good News For Anxious Christians: that voice inside you is not God, says Phillip Cary
It’s not a book for Christians with an anxiety disorder; instead, Phillip Cary’s book claims that the ‘new evangelical theology’ is making Christians anxious by leading them to believe God works in ways God doesn’t work. (He calls ‘new evangelical … Continue reading
