Nov
13
2019
Still under the sway of our own imperialist myth, even in these times, most of us imagine that the countries we colonized in the nineteenth century had always been savage and backward, and it was only when the western...
Oct
08
2019
Falling off a ladder: a theological blog 8 - x - 19
I’ve been trying to read a book called Finnegans Wake it’s complete nonsense I don’t why the feller even wrote it and I’d just about struggled through the...
Oct
03
2019
The Conservative Party Conference makes me weep. What about climate? The scientific evidence is now overwhelming, I doubt whether any once-controversial issue in science has ever reached the level of consensus that climate now has. The scientists are warning...
Oct
02
2019
The terrifying world that's coming: Theo blog 1- x - 19
God told us to look after the earth in Genesis. Can you imagine any crime greater than trashing this beautiful planet? Moi? Surely not. The great issue facing us...
Sep
27
2019
What are the scientists telling us?
Everybody has heard of the greenhouse effect but it is widely misunderstood. We are not pumping out so much carbon into the atmosphere we are creating a thick blanket of it round the earth...
Sep
17
2019
Thomas of Celano, one of St Francis’s early biographers wrote of him “he often overflowed with amazing, unspeakable joy as he looked at the sun, gazed at the moon or observed the stars in the sky”.
During the voyage of...
Sep
03
2019
The Tragedy of Dawkins: A theological blog 3 ix 19
We live in an age of moral pygmies. Bishops mumble. Bankers have given greed new meanings. Far from rhetoric to stir us, in Parliament we get playground exchanges that would...
Aug
19
2019
The Assumption. If not falling asleep on a divan with golden trumpets then what? A theological blog 20 viii 19
A theological blog 20 viii 19
What are we to make of this feast? There could hardly be any doctrine more...