Comments on: choose your own adventure

By: -mm

-mm — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:36:11 +0000

i’m at the hylton’s with giz and abby while joel and cindy are in the states. listening to their itunes when what to my wondering ears should i hear but a distinctly northern lilting voice talking about God’s confident sons.

miss you guys. so glad that for at least some part of the story, our characters got to work together for the kingdom.

By: The Right Authority at Zoomtard

The Right Authority at Zoomtard — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:41:20 +0000

[...] There was a little flurry of activity around our tiny dark, dusty cupboard of the internet a few weeks back when the Nerdlingers (Jaybercrow, Peebles, Bob and me) blogged boringly about the Bible and what authority it might have. Because I was reading a book about homosexuality in the church (yawn) I started reading Tom Wright’s little book explaining his views on the topic. Oh what a book it is! [...]

By: Everyone In Cork Is A Clown at Zoomtard

Everyone In Cork Is A Clown at Zoomtard — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:25:04 +0000

[...] Wright And Whether He Is Right So remember when I waxed lyrical about the Bishop of Durham, Tom Wright’s ideas on how the Bible can be authoritative? No? You do. Here and here. Jaybercrow also had a go at explaining it to you. Well now Bob, the Corkonian Clown has gotten in on the act, which is terrifically cool because it almost seems as if we’re having a theological conversation. A bunch of young Irish guys (we may need to convince Jayber of that the Nordie Prod) are talking about big heavyweight things. And I’m allowed in the gang. How cool is that? I thought I should respond. That is what web-bloggers do, or so I read in the Churchman’s Guide To Modern Technology: From Blogs to Flying Butresses In 700 Pages Of Densely Packed, Scripture Annotated Text. [...]

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:21:06 +0000

Interesting stuff. I wrote a response (of sorts) at my own blog. The trackback thing doesn’t seem to be working (most probably a problem on my end) so I thought I’d mention that fact here.

By: jaybercrow

jaybercrow — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:34:10 +0000

Everyone go and read what Zoomtard says – he’s quite right that the Story is more like a Charlie Kaufman script than a Shakespeare play. I never did like Shakespeare much.

Mark – you are a prince among Presbyterians. Great to hear your thoughts.

By: mark mck

mark mck — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:20:54 +0000

I’ve just come to the end of an afternoons studying for an OT exam….skim read 2 Samuel and a bit of 1 Kings. The thought struck me that this is a great story, excellently written and weaved together. Then I thought how excatly would I preach on it…it doesn’t neatly lend itself to a 3 point sermon!

Then I read your blog and this post sheds so much light on it, we need to see God’s actions and reactions in a story, we need to see how characters mess up, yet get on with it.

I haven’t read it, but I hear Eugene Peterson has a book out on bible study called “Eat this book”. The title sounds amazing, we don’t study to inform our minds, but we eat and digest the bible stories in the way we eat our food, a mouthful tantatilsies our taste buds for a moment, but sustains our lives for a day, even a lifetime?

That’s an inital response…I’ll be digesting your post for a while.

Any wylie – you are a legend.

By: Now I Am Choosing My Own Adventure at Zoomtard

Now I Am Choosing My Own Adventure at Zoomtard — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:13:38 +0000

[...] You’ll just have to trust me when I tell you I have a load of deadly Zoomtards lined up. You go through phases, don’t you, when you just don’t want to write anything down. I think I am coming out of one of those now and I want to write everything down. Drinking coffee and listening to good music in my office (the public one, since I am so important I have two!) this morning I read Jaybercrow’s latest post. I know I am biased with Jaybercrow since he is a legend I happen to be friends with but I love his blog and this post of his perfectly demonstrates why. Its deep, its concise and its loving. [...]

By: zoomination

zoomination — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:11:46 +0000

I loved this post so much, I went and wrote my own response on Zoomtard. Great post Jaybercow, with great comments too. Quit that college course and just write fulltime.

By: jaybercrow

jaybercrow — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:03:17 +0000

R. Daneel – what’s with the name? You can’t fool me! I totally undestand your feelings about the word authority – I guess the word has been damaged by bad experiences of forms of Christianity with an ugly and harsh view of God. In the end I don’t think we can give up the idea of God’s authority over us, even if we want to use different language. Our relationship with him is not a relationship between equals. But we maybe need to recapture the sense that it’s not merely the authority of power, but also the authority of love, of compelling goodness and beauty. I loved hearing your thoughts.

Wylie – What a legend. We miss you.

By: wylie

wylie — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:38:56 +0000

Jaybercrow you wreck my head! it has taken me 2 days just to figure out what this post was trying to say never mind the implications of it! but now that i am beginning to understand it (with help of the dictionary!) all i can say is ‘bloody hell it’s brilliant’! It’s true and it changes everything. I loved what you said about the bible stubbornly remaining as a big messy story – beautiful! it always feels big and messy to me and i’m beginning to love that – (it kinda makes me wanna jump in and swim around!)