The Seed
This blog grew out of my writing for the NUS Varsity Christian Fellowship’s Epistole, a semesterly newsletter–a semester being three months, aka. Too Long For Comment On Many Things I Would Like.
More seriously though, Epi was and still is great–but its writers have a lot more to offer about Christian issues and the world we are called to be “in, but not of”. I imagined an online portal where we could raise issues, voice out our opinions as servants of God, and point with the sword of truth as best we can. The print edition will still be there, with all its goodies intact; online we’ll let rip with sharing of how (we think) God works, in shorter posts of material too short-noticed, informal and/or politically incorrect for print.
Enjoy!
The Issues
We live in a truly, truly screwed-up world. That guarantees as writers, we’ve more to say than a three-monthly schedule will allow us. I originally thought of focusing on apologetics seeing our faith’s under serious attack–but the power of the online medium means we’ll be putting up much, much more. I wish this weren’t an issue, but unless otherwise indicated content is strictly non-denominational and in the spirit of love for God and neighbour.
This blog, however, doesn’t rise above one thing–it contains our own personal opinions, presented as such; I don’t have the energy to care about whether readers agree with them or not. We try our best to make all information factually accurate, and where the Bible applies, in context and as doctrinally correct as we’re capable of. The comments section is for healthy, mature debate, not trolling or rudeness. If you break the rules of basic courtesy and human decency… well, you know you don’t have to care who you are in the anonymity of cyberspace, and neither will I when I ban you at my earliest convenience.
That said, if you notice a doctrinal or factual error and can tell us how to correct it, please get in touch.
The Guiding Passage
When Solomon wasn’t ruling and marryin’ willy-nilly he was writing wise proverbs and chronicling his spiritual autobiography, (likely) known to us as the book of Ecclesiastes. Here’s some of it I’ve taken to heart, and will follow as best I can:
For everything there is a season… a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
(Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6-11)
The Admin
ZP — a harried Christian and struggling NUS Engineering student with a love of writing fiction and playing PC games (PCs rule!!!) in whatever spare time he has. When he’s not searching for his laptop under a ton of paper.
