Category Archives: environment
Authority in science and religion, with short reflections on climate change, creation science and house church
The popular challenge to climate change science raises interesting questions about authority, expertise and the gap between popular opinion and the ‘experts’. For many scientists, academics and politicians, there isn’t a debate about the science – or there shouldn’t be. … Continue reading
Filed under environment, fundamentalism, house church, politics
Resurrection and Renewal: Bigger and Better Than Going to Heaven When You Die
Here’s the text of that sermon I gave at Network Vineyard Church on 12 July 2009. 1. Introduction I want to talk about an area of faith where my whole way of thinking was turned upside down. And that’s about … Continue reading
Filed under environment, eschatology, my spiritual journey, N.T. Wright, sermons
Deep green snobbery?
A letter I wrote to The Australian today. Dear editor, Your editorial ‘Deep-Green Snobbery’ (13/12) dismisses any challenge to outer-suburban, McMansion living as ‘class-hatred’. But the green movement is diverse: people from all walks of life are realising that something … Continue reading
Filed under environment, politics
