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Latest Posts
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O Come, O Come Emmanuel: Meaning
It’s been a while since I last posted in my occasional ‘hymnology’ series, where I look at the meaning of Christian hymns. You can see the previous ones under the hymnology tag. Seeing as it’s Advent Sunday, I thought it might be worth looking at the popular Advent hymn O Come, O Come Emmanuel. It’s…
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The CofE: Should I stay or go?
Should I stay or should I go now?Should I stay or should I go now?If I go there will be troubleAnd if I stay it will be double I’m a member of a Christian group on Facebook where we discuss … Christian stuff. Current events from a Christian perspective, all that sort of stuff. One…
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Political truth vs Actual truth
I had another one of my epiphanies yesterday. As I was chatting to my wife, something became clear to me which I hadn’t really seen clearly before. That is: there are now two kinds of truth in the world – political truth and actual truth. They’re not the same thing at all. To some extent…
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How do we solve the problem of politics in 2020 and beyond?
I believe politics is in big need of a reboot. I believe much of the Western world (but particularly the US and UK) is suffering. Take, for example, the division in society about issues like Brexit, Covid, Transgender, etc. These have all become highly politicised. You can understand why an issue like Brexit would be…
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Random Lockdown Generator
This is just a bit of fun… I felt a bit depressed last night about Lockdown II. I had a bit of an idea and decided to relieve some of the tension by making a random lockdown generator. You can find it here. You just click the button and it will generate ten random restrictions…
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Is the risk of lockdown being ignored?
What I want to look at in this piece is the way politicians and the media are talking about risk in relation to the lockdown. We are constantly being told of the risk that covid poses and the need for more lockdown. What is often sidelined or ignored completely is the risk that a lockdown…
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Another scandal. We desperately need spiritual reformation
What can we learn after yet another prominent Christian leader falls to sexual temptation? Is there a problem in the way we preach the gospel? Here I argue that the church desperately needs another spiritual reformation. The preacher and evangelist Ravi Zacharias died recently. It didn’t take long after his death for reports of sexual…
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The Social Dilemma: Why I’m not deleting my Facebook account (yet)
In the last week, I’ve seen two friends announce they watched the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma and are deleting their social media accounts. I understand the sentiment. I’ve thought about deleting my social media accounts on several occasions! But I still haven’t quite been pushed over the edge just yet. The positives have always…
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A Christian case for freedom
A case for why Christians should care about freedom and liberty – including free speech. This is a blog which has been brewing for some weeks now. I’m involved in various different formal and informal Christian networks. Over the last few months, I’ve seen a lot of information from Christian groups advising us about how…
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Perhaps Cuties is the wake up call we needed
Is the film ‘Cuties’ a wake up call for our society to recognise that we have a far deeper problem on our hands? Netflix have been accused recently of encouraging paedophilia because of the film Cuties. Cuties features 11-year-old girls dancing / twerking in a sexualised way. (Some people have defended Netflix on the basis…