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Author Archives: Dave Benson

Lenten Notes on Notre-Dame’s Destruction

April 16, 2019by Dave Benson Leave a comment

The empty husk of European Christendom has finally gone up in flames. Have you heard? Tell it on every social media platform: Notre-Dame, the glamorous gothic ‘lady’ and icon of […]

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On Anything and Everything

The Frustrated Photographer

April 16, 2018by Dave Benson Leave a comment

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 […]

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On Anything and Everything, Spirituality for the Rest of Us, The Heart of Faith

What’s so good about the gospel?

June 18, 2017by Dave Benson 1 Comment

Today I want to tell you a story. The Greatest Story there is, at least according to many people. It’s a story about something I believe we all have in […]

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The Heart of Faith

The Epic Story, Part II

October 6, 2016by Dave Benson Leave a comment

In my previous post, I suggested that in order to make sense of our little and everyday stories, we need a view from above. Like a cosmic director, God has […]

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On Anything and Everything, Spirituality for the Rest of Us, The Heart of Faith

The Epic Story, Part I

October 3, 2016by Dave Benson 1 Comment

At Wondering Fair, we love the little story. We understand a universal God through the gritty particulars of animal instincts and awaiting adoptions, of breastfeeding babies and ‘Black Friday’ blues. […]

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On Anything and Everything, Spirituality for the Rest of Us, The Heart of Faith

A Label I’m Learning to Embrace

February 18, 2016by Dave Benson 8 Comments

I’m not made in the image of a phone. But I do believe I’m made in the image of a loving God, who respects people as people, and objects as objects. And never shall the twain meet.

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Tjukurpa Versus the Tourist

January 14, 2016by Dave Benson 7 Comments

To climb, or not to climb: that is the question. At least that’s the question my tour group recently faced while standing before this giant red rock at the centre of my country: Uluru. We were in a bind. It was a showdown between the interconnected spirituality of Tjukurpa, and the ascendent secularity of Tourists. But had we missed something in the race to the top?

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

God on the Dance Floor

January 4, 2016by Dave Benson 24 Comments

Ballroom dancing must be the western culture’s last bastion of patriarchy. A few months ago Nikki (my wife) and I ticked off our to-do-list by taking up dancing.  Like most […]

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The Heart of Faith

Pastel Dreams and Apartheid

November 5, 2015by Dave Benson 1 Comment

Desmond Tutu has a little children’s book called God’s Dream.[1] In soft pastel paintings of kids from all nations, we discover that God dreams about people sharing and caring, “that […]

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Making a Difference, The Heart of Faith

Naturalistic Faith

September 7, 2015by Dave Benson 3 Comments

Scientists have facts; religious people have faith, right? Life is one giant naturalistic process with no need for God—a big bang, stars forming, planets coalescing, continents drifting, life generating, and […]

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