Sacred Musings
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Love with action, not just words
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. We’ll give you every support, short of actual help… Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18 Over the last few…
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Bishops! What are they good for?
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. Rethinking Church, part three War… huh… yeahWhat is it good for?Absolutely nothing! Edwin Starr – War (1970) Last week, in my ‘Rethinking Church’ series, I wrote about church leadership. I said there…
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Rethinking Church: Pastors and Priests
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. Taking church back to the drawing board: Part Two In the first part of this mini-series, I spoke about how we have a window of opportunity at the moment to totally rethink…
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Rethinking Church: The Bible
Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. If there’s a problem with the way churches are today, what should they be like? On the podcast recently I talked about the work of Dr Tom Wadsworth, a Biblical scholar who…
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I was wrong: everything IS a PsyOp after all
This piece was automatically imported from Substack. This process is not perfect, so please excuse any broken / missing links or images. What does that mean about how we live? Sometimes I have an idea for a topic to write about, and then shortly afterwards I see someone else has written about almost that exact…
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Denominations: Needless division in the church?
This piece was automatically imported from Substack. This process is not perfect, so please excuse any broken / missing links or images. There is something more important than assent to a set of doctrinal positions Earlier this week, I recorded a video for my other channel (Understand the Bible) about denominations. It goes into a…
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Leaving ‘X’ and new-look website
This is only a brief update to say two things: Firstly, I have left the platform formerly known as Twitter (i.e., X). You may know that I decided to leave Facebook and Instagram last year, but I kept X because it found it useful. However, in the end I decided the value I was getting…
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Is love back on the agenda…?
This piece was automatically imported from Substack. This process is not perfect, so please excuse any broken / missing links or images. And could this signify a momentous cultural shift? When was the last time you heard a love song on the radio — at least, one that wasn’t decades old? In days gone by,…
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Essential Church: podcast interview
This piece was automatically imported from Substack. This process is not perfect, so please excuse any broken / missing links or images. My appearance on the Owl & Badger podcast Recently Helen & Tim from the Owl & Badger podcast asked me to come on the podcast for an interview. They were particularly interested to…
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20 years after 7/7: why are people still in denial?
This piece was automatically imported from Substack. This process is not perfect, so please excuse any broken / missing links or images. We must acknowledge that the State perpetrated this atrocity if we are to make any progress. I recently read Lance deHaven-Smith’s book, Conspiracy Theory in America (which you can download for free via…