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Posted in Faith, Literature, Religion, Science on Jan 25th, 2010
Although it is nearly 24 hours since I watched the first in Channel 4’s new series, The Bible: A History, I still find myself annoyed at the mere memory of it. It ended up being more of the aspirational wishful thinking of a romantic presenter than the history deceptively portrayed in the title.
The first quarter [...]
Posted in Faith, Government, Human Rights, Isolation, Law, Morality, Religion, Society on Nov 28th, 2009
Local vicars in Winscombe and Sandford in Somerset have been pressing to have prayers reinstated at the beginning of Parish Council meetings, a month after they were dropped.
The reason why they were dropped is not that the Parish Council wished to stop individuals talking to their imaginary friends in the privacy of their own homes, [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Religion, Science on Jun 26th, 2009
There seem to be more and more cases where religious people are claiming that their faith prevents them from doing their job. If they are then asked to continue doing the job that they were employed to do, some are claiming that they are facing religious discrimination.
In recent months I have been aware of:
an employee [...]
Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Mortality, Psychology, Religion, Therapy on Jun 15th, 2009
I caught part of BBC’s Songs of Praise last night. Well, it was on the TV, and I have spent enough years in my former life as an active Christian to have a strong cultural resonance with some of the music, and there was nothing else in particular to do, so I watched.
In the [...]
Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Religion on Apr 12th, 2009
I wasn’t there and I didn’t do it. I hadn’t even been born at the time!
For a long time I always used to associate Easter with guilt. Although family would try to stuff you with chocolate, and church would try to tell you it was joyful with antiquated, mournful melodies, it is the [...]
Posted in Faith, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Relationships on Feb 5th, 2009
Community nurse Caroline Petrie, a Christian nurse from Weston-super-Mare, has been suspended for offering to pray for an elderly patient’s recovery. She asked the patient if she wanted prayer after she had dressed the patient’s wounds. The patient complained to the North Somerset Primary Care Trust. The nurse was suspended, without pay, on [...]
Posted in Education, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jan 16th, 2009
Teenagers who take the pledge to remain virgins until they are married generally fail to keep it. And they are less likely than those who haven’t taken the pledge to use contraception when they do break their vow.
Janet Rosenbaum, a post doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, used data from [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Humor, Humour, Morality, Religion on Oct 6th, 2008
Richard Dawkins reading his fan mail.
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Posted in Faith, Humanity, Philosophy, Religion on Aug 29th, 2008
I bought Bart Ehrman’s God’s Problem on the strength of reading his Misquoting Jesus, and I wasn’t disappointed.
There are three things about Ehrman’s writing that help me sit up and listen to what he is saying.
First, he is world renowned scholar in his field. He has been teaching the bible at university level for years [...]
Posted in Humanity, Relationships on Aug 6th, 2008
I hadn’t seen him for at least six years, but ‘bumped into him’ yesterday while taking my daily walk. I used to work in the same College as he did, and then he moved away and I moved on. I never really knew him very well, but I always thought he was a nice man [...]
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