Is God Pro-Genocide?
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; […]
Author Archives: Dave Benson
Everythings’s Bent (part II)
Normal. What is normal? Continuing the discussion of our last article, let me borrow from the layered words of C. S. Lewis. In the first book of his futuristic Space Trilogy, Out of […]
Everything’s Bent: Rethinking ‘Normal’
How long until homosexual marriage is legally enshrined in your country? British PM David Cameron has come out in support of ‘Marriage Equality’. So, too, has US President Barack Obama. […]
Good News for Cutters, Old and New
“UGLY.” In seven slices with a razor-blade up her arm, Lauren summarized her life. I’ve done youth work for over a decade now, and self-harm is something I struggle to ‘get’. Perhaps beyond the biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives lies a spiritual key. Perhaps in the ancient practice of blood sacrifice we can make sense of contemporary cutting. If so, then release may reside in the sacrificial Sky God who also bears scars.
Universe from Nothing – a load of Krauss, part 3
Professor Lawrence Krauss is presently a scientific materialist’s pin-up physicist. With Richard Dawkins’ lavish praise, Krauss has been thrust into the limelight, and he is determined to use his quantum […]
Universe from Nothing – a load of Krauss, part 2
In part 1 of this post, I reviewed the near hysteria in materialist circles surrounding Lawrence Krauss. If you want to explain how 13.72 billion years ago we got a […]
Universe from Nothing – a load of Krauss, part 1
If I hear one more person cite Lawrence Krauss without meaningful explanation, I’m going to explode. It began with a bombshell. Dawkins was recently debating Australian cardinal George Pell on […]
Why Church Control must be Crucified
The Church is about controlling people. The overbearing Pastor dominates the congregation, playing lead role and telling the others what to do. Some people avoid the Church like the plague, […]
Why I stopped going to Church
Ah, what power there is in a word. A skilled communicator agonizes over choosing precisely the right word for the occasion—that exact nuance in a verb, a noun, or an […]
The Frustrated Photographer
I have a love–hate relationship with photography. Ever since I was a kid, my recollection of events and places is tied to particular images either mum or I captured. My […]
