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What happened to the 19th Century Mission?

In his article, The Future in the Past: Eschatological Vision in British and American Protestant Missionary History, Brian Stanley gives an overview of an historical shift in theological understanding of the end times among missionaries from the English speaking word around the time of the First World War. Continue reading What happened to the 19th Century Mission?

Being in a Place of Privilege

After I finished my STM thesis I have from time to time considered whether or not I should attempt to take a PhD in Theology from University of Iceland. For a while I have been looking into Christian Churches in places of privilege and the complicated tension between Christian theology and violence.  Continue reading Being in a Place of Privilege

From an Interview with Marcus Borg

He was executed because he had become a radical critic of the way that world was put together and he was beginning to attract a following. To be very blunt, it’s difficult for me to imagine how anybody who has seen what the Bible and Jesus are about could vote for policies that actually maintain or increase the wealth of those at the top in our day.

I came across an interesting interview with Marcus Borg. Even though I might agree to all his theological conclusions. He is without a doubt worth reading.

Viðrar vel til loftárása

http://vimeo.com/12256355

It was during Nato’s bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. A weather reporter at the National Broadcast Television in Iceland said in a sarcastic protest, while talking about the weather around Beograd:

Það viðrar vel til loftárása. (e. it’s a preferable weather for airstrikes)

This statement was used later as the name for a song by Sigur Rós. The music video is filmed in Hvalfjörður, approx 50 minutes north of Reykjavik. A painful but mesmerizing story about love and hateful homophobia. 

Looking at Lectures on Revivals of Religion (by Charles G. Finney)

Charles G. Finney was a key figure in the Second Great Awakening, a revival movement that is in some sense the backbone of the evangelical movement in the US until this day. His Lectures on Revivals of Religion (pdf) are a theological attempt to address some of the concepts of the revival movement. Continue reading Looking at Lectures on Revivals of Religion (by Charles G. Finney)