Merry Xmas
December 21 2017, in Following Jesus | Bible | Social Justice
Putting Christ back in Christmas
in Following Jesus | Bible | Social Justice | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Why loving our enemies is such an important part of following Jesus.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS/ME and Multiple Sclerosis MS
July 3 2017, in Science | Health | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Just how bad is CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome compared to a serious illness like MS Multiple Sclerosis?
But is that what the bible tells us?
In a far flung corner of the multiverse, a monkey abandons typing Shakespeare, to ponder cosmology.
The fear of heights, compassion, and using your superpower to know God.
…the relationship in God between the Father and Son, not the quiet serenity I expected, but sheer exuberant joy and delight… This is the very relationship God welcomes us into through Jesus.
August 30, 2014, in Social Justice |
Iain Duncan Smith must have known that declaring the sick & disabled ‘fit for work’ and cutting their benefits was killing them…
…the deep insight Matt 3:17 “This is my beloved son” gives us into the nature of God. Not the impassive emotionless deity of Greek Philosophy or deism, but God at whose very heart is a relationship of love between Father and Son…
May 2 2015, in Social Justice |
Over half a million children live in families who cannot afford to feed them properly. Over three and a half million adults cannot afford to eat properly.
April 25 2015, in Social Justice | Bible
Israel was meant to be an example to nations around them, and the Old Testament Law established the nation of Israel with a comprehensive social welfare system to take care of the poor.
What was the most challenging message Jesus spoke? It wasn’t ‘love you enemies’ though that is close. It is one we commit ourselves to every time we pray the Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father. We often agree blindly…
January 19, 2014, in Creation&evolution | Bible | Theodicy
If a loving God created the world, why is there suffering and death?
Hope to write on ‘Evolution and Original Sin’, ‘Theodicy, the Problem of Suffering in a Good Creation’ and ‘How Jesus Healed me of Literalism’.
How was Genesis 1 understood by the writers of the OT?
December 30, 2013, in Creation&evolution | Bible
How was the creation account in Genesis 1 written? Was it meant as literal history to be understood as God timetable of creation, or was it a parable or poetic framework whose purpose was to teach truths other than a literal six day creation?
Christmas Refugees
December 7, 2013 Posted in Social Justice | Bible | Leave a reply
Do the snowy images on the news of Syrian refuges remind you of Christmas? They remind me of cosy Nativities and Christmas cards, and I find it very disturbing.
Adam in the age of Science. Part 2, Adam in the NT.
December 7, 2013 in Creation&evolution | Bible | Leave a reply
While there are no theological issues with evolution in the Old Testament, it is another matter when you get to the New Testament…
Adam in the age of Science. Part 1, OT views.
November 29, 2013 in Creation&evolution | Bible | Leave a Comment
In an age when genetic comparisons have show our closest relative are chimpanzees and bonobos, how are Christians to understand Adam?
IT SEEMS TO ME …
December 8, 2012
It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist & an evolutionist.
Charles Darwin May 7th 1879
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