How does one preach an upbeat, “This is God’s word for you, you 21st Century Peeps” sermon when the title given is “Meaningless, Meaningless, Everything is Meaningless”? And why does it’s Hebrew name sound like it’s Klingon? And who invented …
If I was based the other side of the Pond, I’d be going to this at the end of the month. If you are (the other side of the pond) then why aren’t you?
Fulcrum have just published this monster essay by Oliver on the Gospel and sexuality. Yes, it’s Oliver, so it takes some getting through (hands up all those who survived “Resurrection and Moral Order”), but it is a brilliant piece of …
Who saw this piece in the Sunday Times this weekend? THE Church of England is facing a new rift over homosexual clergy with the disclosure that more than 50 gay or lesbian priests have “married†in civil partnership ceremonies. Traditionalists …
General Synod, Civil Partnerships and a possible way out… Read more →
Christopher Howse in today’s Telegraph: It is true that myrrh mixed with wine was offered to Jesus on the cross, and that Nicodemus provided myrrh and aloes to anoint his grave-clothes. But the deathly associations of myrrh are turned upside-down …
The Binks tells us how it is… So what would Santa say? A pious legend about St. Nicholas of Myra at the Council of Nicaea (AD 325) relates how the heretic Arius was invited to explain himself: ..Arius was called …