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An exploration into the question of what makes traditional Christianity unappealing to a great many people who turn to alternative models of spirituality to nourish and support their personal growth. Such a vast subject cannot be dealt with in a simple blog but some major issues are introduced and considered within their historic context.
In my Lenten Project, this year we have been looking at some of the ways in which the early church and today’s religious consciousness corresponds or, contrariwise, finds no connection. The biggest contrary maybe the one the church is observing this week-end, that is the idea of sacrifice. In the ancient world, as far back […]
How do you cope if you are romantically and liturgically involved when Ash Wednesday falls on St. Valentine’s Day? A less sever conflict perhaps than when Good Friday falls on Lady Day, a problem John Donne wrestled with in verse 300 years ago, but nevertheless for traditionally inclined Christians there is a real conflict. In […]
In theological discourse and in parish worship Jesus is spoken of as the Son of God far more than Jesus as Man, the exemplary human, the acme of what it means to be human. My concern here is that this way of presenting him tends to obscure the fact of his manhood and that is a significant attenuation of the reality…
A very long time ago I heard a sermon on Matthew 16.24. “If anyone would be my disciple let him take up his cross and follow me.” The preacher began with the tale of the child who, after listening intently to the Rector’s sermon queried her mother about the Rector’s poor teddy-bear called Gladly who was cross-eyed. More recently I re-read a Jungian writer on spirituality suggesting In his view, “To be mortal means to be limited…
These days people don’t have children simply because that is what happens often when two people of opposite genders sleep together. Children are generally, at least in our society, planned for, therefore desired, their beingness is celebrated even in utero and their entry into the world is the fulfilment of the anticipated joy. This is so different from how it used to be […]
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