Meet Jesus at uni
Here’s the finished brochure cover. Jesus is courtesy of Puppet Revelation.
If you could buy Jesus in a pharmacy, he would be…
“Meet Jesus at uni” is the slogan for the brochure I’m working on, for the 2008 AFES Commencement Camps SA. I’ve been trawling the web for images of Jesus, trying to find something in between gritty and fun. Who wants a sop-bag? WANTED Jesus. Must be able to transmit God’s […]
Contact, pt 4: The search for meaning
The X-Files told us that The Truth Is Out There. The search for meaning is one of humanity’s defining features. As far back as we can trace, human societies have in this sense been essentially religious. Prehistoric burials and ancestor worship indicate our grappling with life and death from the […]
Contact, pt 3: Which god?
One of the main themes that Contact deals with is religion. Through the extremist preacher Joseph (right), the film shows that religion can be a very destructive force. Yet we also see a benign expression of religion that is knowledgeable and sophisticated. Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey, below) is Contact‘s poster-boy for […]
Contact, pt 2: A question of faith
How can we know reality? As a SETI scientist, Ellie Arroway is in the business of quantifying and measuring things. For Ellie, something can be known if it can be measured. God — whoever or whatever that is — cannot be dealt with in these terms, so Ellie is unwilling […]
Rate your Stickability
We had dinner with my family on Monday night and, amongst the vast array of silliness mixed with theological discussion with a dash of personal reflection, one of my sisters was telling us about the fantastic speaker she heard at the recent Out of the Valley conference. Louie Giglio is […]
Where do you live?
This popular cartoon is by Randall Munroe (you can now buy posters of it too). I especially like the submerged land of Usenet* and the tiny principality of Attractive MySpace Pages! Where do you live? * Usenet was/is a huge and ancient kind of e-mail-based discussion system
Meet Jesus at uni 