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...
Aug
13
2019
A theological blog 13 - viii - 19
The will of God – I sometimes wonder whether the will of God isn’t sometimes the ultimate backstop: a convenient metaphor - for who better to have on your side than God...
Aug
06
2019
Meowing in the distance: a theological blog 6 - viii - 19
The other day we had to have our cat put down. He was an old cat, eighteen already we had had him from a kitten, and in his...
Aug
04
2019
The other day we had to have our cat put down. He was an old cat, seventeen we had had him from a kitten, and in his late years extremely lame. All his life he had been an outdoor...
Aug
02
2019
A theological blog 6 - viii - 19
The will of God – that convenient metaphor for doing exactly what I want no matter what the distress or inconvenience to anybody else.
Jul
16
2019
How you haunt me still, dear Ben, who were once amongst the handsomest and most beautiful of men both cursed and favoured by Apollo, you died before your time, wreathed in distress and sorrows, bald, riddled with cancer and...
Jul
15
2019
A theological blog 16- vii – 19
Far from merely showing that mysteries once explained by God are merely secular puzzles, both science and God, whatever that term means, speak out of the whirlwind.
We should admire humanists. How impressive are...
Jul
08
2019
A theological blog 9 - vii 19
Contemporary Pathological Male Dominance
The twentieth century saw an eruption of pathological male dominance such as has been sometimes witnessed among chimpanzees, notably in Jane Goodall’s observations of the Kasakela chimapanzees at Gombe, in...