Authority: The Nazi Church
There is no doubt that authority has been abused throughout history. I can say the name Hitler and everyone cringes. Should this sort of authority be present in the church? Was it meant to be…
Author: Nathan Colquhoun
Authority: Its an Issue
One thing I have struggled with through my lifetime is the understanding of authority; more particularly church authority. I’ve been told by people in pastoral positions that I need to listen to whatever they say…
1 Year Evaluation
Here are the reasons I listed on my first post of why i was creating this blog, let’s see how I’m doing. I figure its good to re-evaluate after a year of being online, to…
Happy Birthday Website
Today is the one year anniversary of my website. Happy birthday to my website. Get me a birthday present by clicking on every single google link. A debrief of the past year will follow soon.
The Bible: How Then Shall We Understand It?
I think this is going to be my last post on the subject for a while. If you want to understand more on a subject such as this there are other authors/theologians that hold similar…
The Bible: Verses and Chapters and Why They Don’t Do Justice
The bible wasn’t originally written with verses and chapters. That may come as a surprise to many; others have already stopped reading because they knew that already. While chapters and verses have helped many remember…
Bible: The Greatest Myth Ever Recorded
There is some discussion resulting on the last post on the Bible, so you can read it there. I will comment on some of the posts soon. I’m going to post as I have time,…
The Bible: A Redemptive Historical Narrative
Over the past two years or so I’ve gotten a lot of questions about my thoughts on the bible and what it is and my views on it. From sitting down with concerned pastors, questioning…
Growing through Change
One of the things that I have been accused of in the past little while is sort of an anti-intellectualism. My ability to say ‘I don’t know’ in almost every situation bothers people. Sometimes the…
Shopping As An End
“I’m going shopping.” I’ve heard this phrase a number of times in my lifetime. It seemed normal. When I was younger, Phil and I used to go to the mall for no other reason but…
Why Would Jesus Cry?
First Question: What’s the shortest verse in the bible? Almost everyone who knows useless facts of the bible knows that the shortest verse is ‘Jesus wept.’ Second Question: Why is he weeping? If you didn’t…
Just a Little Thumb Drive
So after staying up till 8:00am this morning and seeing Darryl off to see his girlfriend and Jon off to work, I decided to get a few hours of sleep in before I had to…
Had A Bad Day Again
One of the things that I love about having a website and a blog is the fact that it allows me to be transparent. I can be real on here and express how I’m actually…
My Faith vs Everyone Else
Since I’ve been at York I’ve been on a mission. I’m no longer studying just my faith and everything that comes along with it, now I’m studying other people’s faith and studying my faith like…
Lured by Grace
I’m beginning to notice this trend within and around the church scene where we seem to attempt to bring people in to our church by luring them by grace. We tell them that it doesn’t…
Chris Rock: The Preacher
Tonight I was planning on going to bed a bit earlier than usual, so around 2am, but I got sidetracked by a Chris Rock special on the Comedy Network. For some reason I couldn’t pull…
September is Over
My roomate Nathan Shurr is funny. He says “September is over, someone should go wake up Green Day.” That’s humour at its finest.
Small Needs to be the New Big
I got an e-mail today from an Ollie Erickson, it was a great e-mail, and challenged me a lot. He had been reading my blog for a bit and pointed out that some of the…
NEED
Yesterday I was walking toward the pick-up spot to where we were meeting for our ball hockey game. The hockey-game where I almost got my eye poked out and just have a few bloody cuts…
I’m A Little Man
I’m beginning to become more aware of one of my flaws. It’s making me feel more uncomfortable the more it’s unveiled. It all started in Halifax. We were sitting around a pub, everyone was sampling…