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- byron smith
- Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Heroes: Karl Barth, Jed Bartlet, Bart Simpson. Nemeses: misplaced apostrophes, escapist eschatologies, urban 4WDs.
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Key posts
- Why I'm not going to heaven
- What I believe
- My thesis topic
- Heaven: don't worry, it's not the end of the world (series links)
- Dirty and dusty
- Is it wicked to solve the problem of evil? (series links)
- Jesus and climate change (series links)
- Worse than Death? (series links)
- The good news of Holy Saturday
- Of gloom, doom and empty tombs
- Our ecological crises: wake up and smell the stats
- Ecological and resource crises: a list
- "There is nothing new under the sun"
- Fifteen reasons to love the earth
- Why bother? On fighting a losing battle
- What shall we do? Twelve steps for responding to converging crises
- Joyfully embracing less (and more)
- What does the church have to do with climate change?
- Starting with Christ: The limits of neutrality
- On imagining the future: human action is reaction
- Disasterbation turns you blind
- Copenhagen and Climate Change: hope and hopelessness
- Why I am neither left nor right: where I stand politically
- Ethics is good news
- Scared yet?
- Surrendering to God?
- Why are Christians scared of science?
- The end is nigh? Apocalyptic thought and our present distress
- Too late? A genuine possibility
- Human rights: a stop sign, not a road map
- What we do with what we know: a story
- Better than growth
- Lent: Simplicity and Contentment
- Seven billion: Too much of a good thing?
- Shades of green: how do we respond to ecological degradation?
- On prayer
- Fear
- On worshipping a pedestrian god: seven reasons to ditch the car
- Corporate growth: what is wrong with the world?
- Ecological legalism and Christian freedom
- Looking ahead: anticipation and prudence
- Immanuel
- News for the new year
- Freed to love: why (rich) Christians need to think about climate change
- The change we need: Reflections upon Obama
- Obama: Hope and false hope
- Sex and singing: creation and creating co-worshippers
- Only the beloved can love
- Going, going, gone
- Why I love Nietzsche
- Imagine...
- Peak Oil: a theological response
- A whole new world
- The Arctic is melting: 18 reasons to care
- Top 20 books that have influenced me theologically
- How to avoid thinking about climate change
- Good Energy
- Finitude is a gift
- Palingenesia & futility
- Placing oneself: Barneys and grief
Series (first posts)
- Why be green? Ecology and the gospel
- Heaven: not the end of the world
- Two horizons of hope: justice vs economic growth
- Who is a child?
- Approaching the cross
- Running from the past: Breakfast with Jesus (Easter sermon)
- Mary's melody: a revolutionary hope
- Jesus and climate change
- What is forgiveness?
- O'Donovan lectures: Morally Awake?
- God with us?
- Would Jesus vote green? Emotional responses to ecological crises
- Why Politics?
- In praise of...
- Worse than death?
- Fearless service
- Must Christians be pacificists? (Guest series)
- The end of grace
- Blessed be the name...
- The End of Suburbia
- Theodicy and eschatology: Is it wicked to solve the problem of evil?
- Barneys burns
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