Over the past few years I have been spending more timing thinking and reading about the prophets of ancient Israel such as Ezekiel, Elijah, Jonah, Isaiah, Daniel and Jeremiah among others. Joining the GP brotherhood [more…]
But for Barker’s invention (plagiarising?) of the pneumatic lever that Cavaillé-Coll had made such use of in St. Sulpice, such vast organs, using such high wind-pressures, would not have been practicable – no organist would [more…]
By about 1850, not only had large numbers of Cathedral Organs been re-built, incorporating the latest mechanical contrivances, and improvements in terms of type and range of sounds, but many Parish Churches, too, had had [more…]
Buddha and Half a Pomegranate THE Lord Buddha had announced that on a particular day he would receive alms with his own hands for the support of the poor and the unfortunate, and had begged [more…]
There might seem some disjunction between this discourse’s subject, and Passion Sunday, if so, I apologise. In 1956, the existence of the Neutrino was affirmed in the journal Science, although it had been postulated [more…]
Not, you might think, a very likely headline these days, but, go back a few centuries, and that’s how the Kentish Guardian & Canterbury Recorder might have put it… [from oure Ultra-montane Scribe in [more…]
Pascal’s ‘Wager’ Psalm: My Text today: I Kings 19: 11 -13 I was reflecting a while ago on Pascal’s ‘Wager’ Argument. You know, the one that runs, roughly, ‘If you were asked whether you would [more…]
As a nipper, I was brought up in what was a fairly typical, English family. Mum, Dad, siblings and normal sorts of stuff. We were what I call typical Church of England. We all went [more…]
Surmising how anxiously-awaited must be this further instalment in my gripping serial, I was moved, unprepared and disorganised as I am, to put finger to key, and initiate another chapter in this saga. You will, [more…]
This is fiction. Any resemblance to any persons living or dead is coincidental. The events outlined have never to my knowledge occurred. Some of the locations are real. Once Edge had finally left the Army, [more…]
Like most of the important milestones in Edge’s life his marriage was in the autumn, October 14th of 2000 is St John the Baptist Church Instow. It was and is a beautiful church, nestled into [more…]
Firstly a hat tip to the Flat Earth Society, their website is: https://www.tfes.org/ also for Wikipedia, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies I thought it about time that we all knew something about The Flat Earth Society, (TFES). [more…]
Last time I wrote about the state of religion in the UK, and the lessons Christianity can teach us regarding modern life. Today, I cover some further lessons, and some hope for the future. Free [more…]
The State of Affairs According to the 2011 census, Christians make up 59.5% of the UK population. Those with no religion make up 25.7%. Then you have Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism. Anglicans make [more…]
The ongoing vilification of Jacob Rees-Mogg regarding his specific view on abortion is beyond the pale for any society that regards itself as civilised and rational. There is a reason that numerous philosophical dilemmas and [more…]
You may have seen in the news recently (well every bleeding hour of every day on a 24/7 rolling news bollocks MSM station) that there is to be a royal wedding. I wish the couple [more…]
So, if someone mentions the Prophet Jonah, what will most people say? The story of the whale of course and that’s about it. Four short chapters of a book in the Old Testament about a [more…]
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