Monthly Archives: April 2010
In Which An Anglican Ex-Bishop Makes an Ass of Himself
In the UK we had a important day in law this week. A senior judge (called Laws, no less!) ruled that a dismissed marriage guidance counselor could not appeal against the upholding of his dismissal by a previous hearing. The … Continue reading
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Why is British Unitarianism in Freefall?
I have a lot of sympathy for the Unitarian movement. Specifically the modern Unitarian movement that seeks to provide a community and religious experience free from the burden of creeds. It is a humanistic faith concerned with social justice. I … Continue reading
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What is Theology?
There are as many definitions as there are theologians. Mine is: Theology is investigating the implications of a particular model of God. or Thealogy is investigating the implications of a particular model of Godess. Observations You start from some model … Continue reading
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God Does Exist After All — Part 3
Part 3. The Will of the Sofa This follows on from part 1, whereas part 2 was a bit of background. In part 1 I described what it means to say that something like Marxism, or pacificm, exist. As we … Continue reading
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What's in a Name?
A bit of a random side-show while I’m working on the next post in my series about God. Today I needed to write an explanation of how different people would interact. I started, as I often do, by naming them. … Continue reading
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God Does Exist After All — Part 2.
Part 2. Are You a TRUE Patriot? In the last part of this series, I described concepts such as libertarianism, pacifism and Marxism; and what it means to say these things ‘exist’. I said that we can group people together … Continue reading
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God Does Exist After All — Part 1.
Part 1. Another Type of Existence What is ‘libertarianism’? Or ‘pacifism’? Or ‘Marxism’? Do these things exist? I think these three things can be said to exist, but they do so in a very particular way. They are things that … Continue reading
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A Cracker by Augustine
H/T clayboy Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of … Continue reading
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Jesus as a Boy? — John 2:1-11
I’ve been doing a little bit of study on infancy gospels recently. They are early Christian writings about the life of Jesus before his public ministry. Works such as the Protoevangelium of James and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, both … Continue reading
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Explanations have Consequences
You have told or been told a white lie at some point. Often it goes unnoticed. But on occasion it grows. It happens because explanations have consequences. You tell the lie: “I couldn’t get milk because the store was closed.” … Continue reading
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