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Easter-The basics: The resurrection of Jesus Christ
Foreword [A most important setting of the scene for friends and readers with little time] If you have come across this piece of work with the serious intention of finishing it then you ought to know, whether you know something of the author’s literary idiosyncrasies or or not, that most of the conclusion is assumed … Read more
Easter-The Basics: The Last Supper
Part Two The Last Supper, It is a relief to say that, for the purposes of this post, we can forgo some of the academic minutiae about whether to follow the synoptic (Matthew, Mark, Luke) or Johannine (John) chronology of Jesus’s final days. First of all I’m going to take the liberty (an informed liberty … Read more
Easter-The Basics. Part One: From Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday
Easter-The Basics Part One: From Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday Foreword There is probably no more fitting a time to add a blog post of some length than at the apex of the Christian calendar, namely, Easter. The period leading up to Easter, Lent, encourages those who are not at all familiar with the heart … Read more
Stars in their eyes: a sermon on the three wise men. Epiphany Sunday MMXII
With Stars in their eyes Introduction My sermon delivered on the feast of the Epiphany at St Mary the Virgin and All Saint’s Church, Potters Bar. I omit a joke that (I think!) came across well from the pulpit but would not flow so freely in written form. This version is only slightly edited … Read more
Why there’s still something about (the virgin) Mary: exploring a few dilemmas about the mother of Jesus
One never knows, in certain circles, if you are being asked a question out of malice or out of genuine curiosity and a desire for growth. Such was the feeling I got when asked recently if there isn’t a rather dangerous precedent set by God in his bringing about the virginal conception of his Son … Read more
REVISED & UPDATED: ‘Why Britain is(n’t really) a Christian nation’ and why Richard Dawkins is still wrong.
Re-stating the obvious This is a slightly updated version of a post made over Christmas when the Prime Minister made comments to the effect that Britain is a ‘Christian nation’ made in light of things like heritage, the King James Version of the Bible and our established Church of England. Recent debates have arisen, following … Read more
‘McChristianity’ a new conservative-evangelical God discovered in Oxford?
‘You do understand don’t you, that to admit to this, or something that amounts to this in your paper, is to sanction a form of ‘Divine Appointment’ theory that is effectively, and I in no way wish to be flippant here, a heresy?’
Does God Play Dominoes?: analysis of the William Lane-Craig ‘Does God Exist?’ debate.
I read an article in a magazine recently which bemoaned the loss of a sizeable philosophical vox pop in British public discourse. The present age of British broadcasting seem to like their academics to be scholars-lite, telegenic and pleasing to the ear but having contributed little or nothing that their university based peers believe to be worth … Read more
Open Mic(haelmas): New Blog posts starting Monday
“A Professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.”- W. H. Auden Well, the new academic term is upon us, which means I will once again be drawing my well-rested hands across a WHSmith thin line ruled A4 notepad this weekend and, Faust like, shall conjure up food for thought at a reasonable price … Read more
Death & Immortality: its reality and its equality
If you are of the view that the regenerated life is going to be nought but a petty continuation of your present domestic, emotional, and relational arrangements only a wee bit better for having ‘survived’ ;no wonder you’d rather leave all that ‘harp playing in the clouds on yonder shore’ for the dogs.
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