Category: Random Links

Another good set of posts to ponder from Malaysia Votes. Keeping close watch I was "conscientized" at a very young age by my father how powerful media is. Election issues and their effects It will be interesting if the following prediction is overturned in the coming election. how much would the performance of the BN…

Appraisal time for Abdullah Looks like Malaysia Votes will be one website just added to my rss feeds. More than bread and butter It will be good to read this piece with another piece Delivering the bread and butter. The titles frame the discussion 🙂 How hard will the candidates and political parties have to…

Vote! Soo-Inn chips in and gives us some guidance. I like the part where he says … We all can pray and we can vote 🙂 So often, we’re tempted to just choose one or the other… I have no illusions about the ability of politics to save the nation. The fundamental problem of humankind…

The erosion of democracy Read this only after I posted the whole post. .. but felt the last should be the first. Enough of rambling. Back in Malaysia, media bombardment by state propagandists may dampen the joy of the Chinese Lunar New Year, but I take solace in the fact that all democracies are flawed….

This is our country Great effort by Wan Saiful Wan Jan and Tricia Yeoh. Here’s a series of questions to draw you in … "What we need to do now is to accept that everyone, Muslim or not, is part and parcel of the fabric of the Malaysian society. We have to move away from…

It’s been a little too long since I did a Malaysian Random Links post … here’s some for the Chinese New Year … just to catch up with so much that is happening. Does The Barisan Nasional Believe In Their Own Spin? I was just having a good plate of Hokkien Mee after a wake…

Christians Wrong About Heaven, Says Bishop 58 year old Bishop Wright bound to raise eyebrows when his ideas reach and revise popular ideas of heaven. Dialogue at Davos (by Brian McLaren) These are important steps forward … "…when a Muslim conversation partner introduced me to a group of Muslims I hadn’t met: "This is my…

The Mutuality of Theology and Science: An Example from Time and Thermodynamics After Leron’s visit I’ve been thinking a little bit more on a trialogue between two religions and science, I can see some immediate insights here. The Three-fold Sense of Scripture: An Evangelical Grammar for Theological Hermeneutics conventional, canonical and contemporary … or I’d…

The Hermeneutics Quiz I wonder how I will score? Reading the Bible in a Postmodern Context Story, Listening, and Discerning …. Biblical theology and systematic theology Nice jolt … …there’s no one-way street from exegesis to dogmatics – the traffic always moves in both directions. And as Bultmann rightly insisted, there can never be a…