A Thinking Man

I am now the proud owner of a third one.
The experience of getting there was quite difficult.
Let me briefly re-cap.

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Two becomes three …
Although I can write about it now, I have been ‘internally speechless’ for days (if that makes sense).

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Since my friends have got to know of my present health problems a number of them from throughout the UK have contacted me to assure me that they are praying for me, and I know that at least two churches are interceding for me. I am genuinely touched by the kindness of the sentiment [...]

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Throughout my life I had heard rumours that things change when you reach your fifties. In my twenties, thirties, and forties I laughed at men who grew fatter, lost most of their hair, staggered sleepily to the toilet in the middle of the night, and who mysteriously talked about bits that struggled to function. It [...]

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Christmas is traditionally a time of peace. Many of the faithful would even argue that peace on earth is one of the ‘true meanings’ of Christmas. At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI called on world leaders to end bloody conflicts and expressed hope that the celebration of birth of Jesus Christ would bring [...]

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Throughout this past week the UK (and I suspect the world) press has been featuring extracts from various personal letters between Diana, Princess of Wales, and her lover, Dodi Al Fayed, and her father-in-law, Prince Philip. The letters have been used as evidence in the Inquest into her death in an attempt to support [...]

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You just couldn’t make it up!
You will remember that before the Reformation in the C16th, the Roman Catholic Church got itself into a bit of bother over the sale on indulgences - its version of a ‘get out of hell free’ card (that you had to buy).

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In the early hours of October 25, 2007, 22 year old Emma Gough, a shopworker from Telford, UK, died.  She had recently given birth to twins, and held the babies as her life ebbed away.
She died, despite being in hospital with a team of doctors and nurses around her.  She died, even though her life [...]

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“If they win, they win.  If they lose, they win!”
This statement was spoken with frustration and a degree of sarcasm in Christopher Brookmyre’s recent comic novel “Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks”.  In this book Brookmyre wittily explores and exposes the fraudulent activities of people involved in the world of the paranormal.  One of the major themes [...]

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The Right-to-die group, Dignitas, has recently encountered problems in Zurich where local residents objected to premises being used to support suicide, though assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland and has been allowed since the 1940s. This is the second time it has had to move its apartment within a year.
In a way, Dignitas has become [...]

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