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Myth and Mystery in Religion
Lecture to Engaging Issues November 2017 Some of you may remember that, a couple of years ago, I was standing here to give a talk on being Spiritual but not Religious. And I was pretty scathing about some aspects of traditional religion, which I claimed were obsolete, and needed to be discarded. Nevertheless, I do […]
Who or What is God?
Lecture at Engaging Issues November 2013 As you can see from my title, I like to ask simple questions. But in this case, deceptively simple, because of that three-letter word G-O-D. Who or what is God? Where do we start to look for an answer? It’s all very well saying “ I wouldn’t start from […]
Spiritual but not Religious?
Lecture to Engaging Issues January 2016 I was listening to, radio4 I think it was: about a man looking for a new partner – for whatever reason I don’t know, but ‘compatibility’ was his concern. Using the Internet he found one of the many websites designed for that purpose: and he began ticking the boxes, […]
Jesus and Buddha
Engaging Issues lecture January 2013 Jesus and Buddha: Crossing Religious Boundaries. That’s the title of my talk. But there’s something not quite right about it and some of you may have spotted what it is, and I’ll come to it in a minute. Any title is a bit like a newspaper headline. It tends to […]
Pushing out to the Edge
Article in Stretton Focus, February 2019 As humans travel to the edge of the Solar System and colonise the planets, what God will be found? I think it was one of the greatest Archbishops of Canterbury, a scholar and statesman, William Temple (1881-1944) who said something like: “Every idea is ultimately theology, i.e. about God, […]
Leadership
Article in Stretton Focus, March 2019 After his baptism by John and feeling that he had God’s approval Jesus went into the wilderness to think about his mission and how he was to accomplish it. He was tempted by some comfortable options and one of the means he thought about but did not pursue was […]
GET UP OFF YOUR ASSumptions…
Article in Stretton Focus, April 2019 … and have a look at what you’ve been sitting on. We all make assumptions. An assumption is something that we just take for granted as being true, without raising any questions about it. There was a time when people thought the world was flat, and the sun moved […]
Judgement at the End of Days
Article in Stretton Focus, May 2019 The ‘end of days’ is deeply rooted in Christian thinking. That extraordinary late addition to the Bible, the Book of Revelation, offers the vision of a certain John (not the apostle) living on the isle of Patmos. His final apocalypse is full of startling horror images accompanied by the […]
Proverbs for today
Article in Stretton Focus, June 2019 The Book of Proverbs in the Bible urges us to seek for wisdom and understanding: without which we are likely to make shipwreck of our lives. The search for wisdom is a continuous requirement: and if there are proverbs addressed directly to our own day and age, we should […]