Category Archives: God

The way Erickson hoisted the host over his head and held it aloft for a minute or more made a vivid contrast to the perfunctory elevation that the senior priests favored. Tears rolled down his cheeks during the ceremony. The … Continue reading →

A fine anecdote about Claud Cockburn from a recent TLS review of Patrick Cockburn’s memoir of illness: “My father regarded going to St Mary’s (Church) as largely a cultural activity of the Anglo-Irish which he was happy to go along … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If one function of theological opinion is to generate heresy, as I believe it is, so that our team is distinct from their team and any fight over resources more likely to have a decisive outcome, then this would tend … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Up till now, the critics of religion have all tried to change it. The point, however, is to understand it. (I”m lazier than Aquinas, as you’ll have noticed, so my version’s a little shorter.) Continue reading →

I wrote about African Christianity for the Guardian this week (see wormseye link to the right there somewhere). Had a fantastic letter back from a reader, which I excerpt anonymously below About this time last year I witnessed a Christian … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Supposing that you can explain religion as supernaturalism is like supposing you can explain marriage as lust. Continue reading →

I wonder what has happened to the Terry Schiavo autopsy results. They were due a couple of weeks after she died on March 31. time passed. On or about May 9th there was a flurry of stories quoting the pathologist … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I can’t wait for this comic to get to Minnesota. (via) Continue reading →

I was talking to Oliver Morton yesterday and he had just heard from Francis Crick’s biographer some hot news about molybdenum, which is essential to life, and was very scarce for about a billion years after the earth’s atmosphere filled … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The central question for students of religion is this: is coca cola really sugared water? Continue reading →