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Lloyd Geering – Distinguished Theologian and Sometime Heretic.
One of the unfortunate consequences of being a pioneer is that pointing to new paths does not endear you to those comfortable with the safer well-trodden tracks. Professor Lloyd Geering is now seen as more mainstream than he was to … Continue reading
Are You a Closet Atheist too?
The atheist Stephen F Roberts is credited as responsible for the following: “I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you … Continue reading
First Thoughts on a Lectionary Sermon for Sunday 18 September based on Matthew 20: 1 -16
“We will be judged by how we are to people to whom we owe nothing.” Rabbi Hugo Grynn The standard, and I suggest limited, way of looking at this reading from Matthew about the Labourer’s and the vineyard is to … Continue reading
Michele Bachmann Thinks God is Punishing America!?
Michele Bachmann Thinks God is Punishing America!? In case you missed it this is a tea bag! Michele Bachmann has placed herself squarely alongside that other Tea Party front runner for the Republican Presidential nomination Rick Perry with her latest … Continue reading
ATHEISM VERSUS CHRISTIANITY The Non-meeting of Minds
Upton Sinclair is credited with the following observation “It is difficult to get a man (sic) to understand something, when his salary [or reputation or even salvation?] depends upon his not understanding it!” At high school I was introduced to … Continue reading
THE TRINITY – AN IDEA UNDER CONSTRUCTION – NOW NEEDING REVISION?
If you look at the emerging ideas about God we find in the pages of the Bible one puzzle is why the notion of a Trinity was so late in its formation. It is true that the Trinity was hinted … Continue reading
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The Commercial Miracle of Lourdes
On a recent holiday to the South of France, on our way back from the Atlantic Coast near Spain, we called in at Lourdes. Although I had heard stories about pilgrims coming to take the miraculous waters with their much … Continue reading
IS BISHOP TUTU PRODDING ANOTHER HORNET’S NEST?
The following is an excerpt from Bishop Desmond Tutu’s new book God is not a Christian: And Other Provocations, and this series of quotes and paraphrasing was originally presented as part of a talk given in Birmingham in 1989. As … Continue reading
The Need for Church Authority?
Why are large churches needed when Jesus showed no interest in such structures? Jesus not only did not invite people to join a large church organisation, he specifically taught that in the small scale movements eg the mustard seed, two … Continue reading
