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Isaiah – A Prophet of Tetrarchic Vision

23rd September 2018 1642again 0

“Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens, who created all these? He who brings out the starry hosts and calls them each by name, because of his great power, and mighty strength, not [more…]

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Job – Striving to Understand

2nd September 2018 1642again 0

  This is dedicated to a fellow GP poster who saw a close friend die a horrible and early death of cancer only recently. His comments on this tragedy moved me deeply and inspired me [more…]

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English Alabaster

29th August 2018 Going Postal 0

On a mini-break to London some years ago, we decided to have a look round the Courtauld Gallery (in the old Somerset House, which used for decades to be the central registry of birth, marriages [more…]

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Elijah – the Great Prophet who Failed

24th June 2018 1642again 0

This article was originally going to be about Daniel (a GPer request) or Isaiah (for reasons which will become apparent when I prepare an article on him).  Daniel will need to be a two parter [more…]

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Virtue signalling – A Lesson From Buddhism

19th March 2018 Jonathon Davies 0

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…]

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Going to Church

28th January 2018 rattuscatchus 0

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…]

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The Relevance of Christianity – Part Two

17th December 2017 Jonathon Davies 1,863

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…]

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The Relevance of Christianity – Part One

10th December 2017 Jonathon Davies 2,006

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…]

Ethics

Absolutism and Abortion

5th December 2017 Katabasis 2,507

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…]

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