Renewals response to the ethics of War &, the bombing of civilians.: You may not agree with what I am about to say, but expand, enlarge and inform your perspective by reading it. The lazy response is to say war is never right.  For those who love renewal, mercy, grace and love, the question remains‘ how do we apply the higher values of renewal, kindness and mercy to war’? “Every act has a moral consequence”  for example; I may not kill a man but if I falsely slander him, I remove that quality of life he would otherwise enjoy, a good name.  Thus for the Christian in renewal  there are degrees of murder, a kind of...

    The arguments in the west over the debate on what defines acceptable morality and what is unacceptable will not go away and will cause a rift amongst even evangelicals in the west. The church cannot sweep it under the carpet and will not be able to avoid it. In the third world western morality linked with aid is increasingly being understood as another form of colonialism resulting in extreme and unfortunate laws being passed to delineate such nations values from the west. At least china with it’s resources grab is not seen as demanding a change in national values. For Christianity the stakes are really high and go far beyond the...

An open challenge to all Christians who think they are postmodernists please forward to Brian McLaren and Rob Bell Dear friends the idea of Christian Postmodernism is a fable which needs deconstructing. If you believed postmodernists (even they don’t truly understand what they believe)  and it takes years to master, a bit like jujitsu. Of course unlike ju-jitsu there is no grand masters red belt at the end of the study period, just a lot of doubt. But what is it? Well, postmodernism is at the core of a ideology best described as ’emergent church philosophy and doctrine’, it goes something like this, the big meta-narratives e.g....