http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog One Antipodean view - some thoughts from Down Under. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:44:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two things happened recently, separately, but on the same day. Coming together their impact was more pronounced than either would have been on their own. The first thing was that I sought and received advice from a NZ Anglican organization concerning where I might find a "church home", a place ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/07/16/where-to-from-here/ How soul-less are those who live by bureaucratic tosh rather than use their brains with an enlightened heart. Having spent the last several weeks in North Carolina and Virginia, I must admit they are perhaps two of the most beautiful states in the USA. This has much to do ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/07/14/tree-lovers-and-haters/ It is coming into winter Down Here and while we have just had one of the best summers ever, the weather has turned quite cold quite suddenly. This being so, but not the whole reason at all, this Kiwi is looking forward to warming up a little in the ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/05/15/going-on-vacation/ The other day my son was telling me something quite interesting. As he was talking I began to realize that something about it didn't quite stack up. So I asked where he had heard about that. It was on "talk back radio", he told me. And who was the person ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/05/10/who-says-so/ The Crescent and the Cross... the unitarian Islamic deity (Allah) and our trinitarian Christian deity (Yahweh). In my previous entry I mentioned that there are profound theological differences, and differences historically and in outworking, between the Islamic Allah and the God whom Christians worship. Yet Christianity and Islam are both ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/04/30/different-deities-ii/ The Crescent and the Cross... the unitarian Islamic deity (Allah) and our trinitarian Christian deity (Yahweh). Some will have you believe that these deities are one-and-the-same, while others see the danger in referring to them both as though they are one. Are Muslims and Christians talking about the same Being, ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/04/29/different-deities/ April 25th is a special day in the Kiwi calendar. It happened 93 years ago. We share this day with Aussies, and with the Turks. It happened on the Gallipoli Peninsular. For the story of Anzac Day, click here. We have not forgotten you, those of you to whom Colonel Mustafa ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/04/25/in-honour-and-memory-of-our-heroes/ Judah's Journal is three years old today! I had not given a thought three years ago to that I would still be writing stuff for an online diary in three year's time, but neither did it occur to me that I might have stopped by then too. There were no ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/04/17/judahs-journal-birthday-3/ "...to create an awareness on a global level of this world-class orchestra" is what he said. The words of our new, and oh so young, Finnish music director (Pietari Inkinen) who has been described as exciting, so talented, and particularly brilliant. With such glorious aclaim, I wonder what precautions ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/04/14/a-mixture-of-musings/ This is a story that inspired me as a teenager, and challenged me to make something worthwhile of that which was not ideal. As a quilter, I have since heard the saying "when life throws you scraps, make a quilt from them", and there is a similar one that goes ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/04/08/the-oyster-and-the-pearl/ In medieval theology, it was held that love literally set the universe in motion. Love was seen as the principal force behind human life. This idea is reflected in the title of the popular song "Love Makes the World Go 'Round" (Perry Como, 1958). When it comes to the giving ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/04/05/passing-it-forward/ The Christian worldview prescribes a horizon that is further afield than that of a secular or naturalist one. If I were to stand on the beach and look out to sea, on a clear day I may be able to catch sight of the fishing boats in the distance out ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/04/04/leisure-pleasure-treasure-and-good-measure/ If you listen to quilters chatting among themselves you will often hear them talking about their UFOs and sometimes also calling them WIPs. No, these are not those weird sightings in the sky that have the scoffers irritating the convinced observers, and vice versa. These are those projects that were ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/04/02/ufos-and-wips/ The catchy pithy title of this post is the same as that of a book I am currently reading by Dr Douglas Groothuis, associate professor of philosophy at Denver Seminary. That I am doing so coincides rather remarkably with several recent events that have all served to remind me that ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/03/31/truth-decay/ Over the Easter weekend I spent some time doing what I have needed to do for quite a while... that is, refresh the pages of Judah's Site, the five pages of this website outside of Judah's Journal. You can get to those pages by either clicking on the little buttons ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/03/27/hang-on-for-the-ride/ Easter Sunday... the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ. Many sceptics have become Christians while attempting to refute the Resurrection. To present all the evidences here would take too many words, but a summary list of salient points to address include: ~ this event occurred exactly as predicted ~ the Roman seal ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/03/23/easter-sunday/ Easter Saturday... the day in between. The shops are legally allowed to open today, so all those eager consumers may race to the malls to empty their wallets. But just in case you caught a note of something-or-rather in that, I'm on my way too. I have some Easter Eggs ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/03/22/the-day-in-between/ Today is Good Friday. Why is it good? As a child I used to think it was good because we had hot cross buns for breakfast - lovely and spicey, warmed in the oven, butter melting and dripping down our chins. And it was a day off school. Perfect! But ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/03/21/good-friday-or-bad/ It has been some time since my last entry although I may go back and add a few retrospectively to February - ones that were started back then but not finished. Now it is Easter weekend, already March, and Autumn as well. What happened? I simply ran out of steam. ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/03/21/thank-you-tom/ Crossing one's fingers behind one's back means that what one is saying is not the truth. The recent death has been reported of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This organization is a cult that preaches an aberrant non-orthodox Christian theology while claiming (falsely) to ... http://www.visiblesoul.org/judah/blog/2008/01/30/sneaky-talk/