[music] We live in a time where there’s a lot of skepticism and cynicism about all sorts of things. About politics, about family life, about culture, about the church. A lot of that is grounded in a failure to think critically. That might seem almost like a contradiction, but I think people tend to just […]
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How can the music industry inform the system of K-12 education? | John Hardin
Otis Rodgers October 20, 2019 30 CommentsAs we think about how do we transform education in a way that is going to enable every kid to realize their full potential I think there’s actually a lot that we can learn from the music industry. If you’re in the early twentieth century and there’s a song that you want to hear your […]
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Hello and welcome to another one of my Nagging Thoughts. If this is your first time joining me, I would like to ask you to please like, subscribe, share and above all, please do comment. I very much enjoy hearing what your thoughts are in response to my Nagging Thoughts even if I completely disagree. […]
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I used to be a senior software engineer at Google. Until they fired me. For doing something unforgivable. Something so controversial that it was the number one news story for days. My crime: I wrote an internal document, that among other things, suggested that men and women, on average, are different. Like I told you. […]
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Our goal is eternity, the ability to live alongside our Creator for all time. To accept the free gift of salvation offered to us by Jesus Christ. The struggle on a daily basis as a Christian is to remind ourselves of this. The purpose of our life is to cooperate with God’s plan. To those […]
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Life the Law and the Church kiwiconnexion practical theology
Otis Rodgers October 19, 2019 0 COMMENTSDavid: Welcome along to Live On Air this evening. Tonight we’re at Crossroad’s Church in Papakura, and with me is the Reverend Peter Williamson. Peter: Hi David. David: Long-time colleague, and we were just saying before the broadcast began that we’re sitting in the church lounge at Crossroads, and I’m looking out the window; there’s […]
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Eclectic Witchcraft, Universal Theology, Aimless Rambling | Bell Chimes In #42
Otis Rodgers October 19, 2019 33 CommentsHey guys! I’m sorry about the terrible video quality. I’m just a 720 p girl living in a 1080 p world. I’m intrigued by how the label “eclectic witchcraft” gets a really bad rep, and don’t even deny that. Even when fellow witches are pretending they’re open-minded, secretly or in subtext, “eclectic” is more often […]
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It was during the late nineteenth century that pantheism entered the Seventh-day Adventist church. In 1895, Dr. Abram Herbert Lewis, a prominent Seventh-day Baptist and supporter of pantheism, visited Battle Creek and met with Dr. Harvey Kellogg’s wife, Ella Eaton Kellogg. Two years later, in 1897, Kellogg introduced pantheism publicly in a series of talks […]
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Colin: One of the most significant issues of our day, culturally, politically, and theologically is whether persons with same-sex attraction can marry each other. The “Roundtable” will discuss that next. (music) Colin: Welcome to the EWTN Theology Roundtable. I’m your host, Colin Donovan, Vice-President for Theology here at EWTN, and I’m joined on the panel […]
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Election Issues 2017 Clergy Comment part 3 kiwiconnexion practical theology
Otis Rodgers October 19, 2019 0 COMMENTSWell, we come to the final question this evening, which is about the environment, and especially water quality. Max Thompson is asking; should water quality – that is the rivers et cetera – should that be governed as it currently is by a kind of national standard or should this be in the hands of […]
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