Jo McDougall has been telling us the stories behind her first two books for the children of East Timor. In this post she explains her latest book, which is prepared and awaiting publication: My son Michael is 8 years old. He collects seeds and loves growing plants. Michael lives in the tropics where tropical plants …

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“The sign of idolatry is always inordinate anxiety, inordinate anger, inordinate discouragement. Idols are good things (family, achievement, work and career, romance, talent, etc.) that we turn into ultimate things in order to get the significance and joy we need. Then they drive us to the ground because we have to have them. If we …

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Over at Venn Theology, Nathan Campbell offers commentary on an interview with celebrity atheist Christopher Hitchens conducted by a liberal unitarian ‘Christian’ cleric. Nathan’s piece is insightful, but for me the real pay-off was reading atheist Hitchens completely school the liberal unitarian in this exchange: Interviewer: The religion you cite in your book [‘God is …

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