Category Archives: God

Anyone who cares about Christianity and literature should be following Fred Clark’s weekly deconstruction of the Left Behind novels, and this week’s entry is a classic. Left Behind is filled with moments of accidental honesty in which L&J admit that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There is a long and interesting piece by Uta Ranke-Heinemann, a feminist German theologian sacked for admitting she couldn’t believe in the Virgin Birth, up here. She was a colleague of his in Munich after the war, when they were … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A faithful reader why I hadn’t blogged on the subject. After two Guardian pieces and one on Opendemocracy.org, I didn’t really feel I had anything to say. But now I have read through the papers I skipped all weekend, I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My expertise on the papacy is great enough that I won’t bet at all here. It’s just too much lke the Grand National: long and gruelling course, women riders discouraged, form very hard to read — but the real difference … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Much is now being written and recycled about John Paul II’s supposed “failure to understand” the nature of western liberal society. In reality he understood the dynamics of society in western Europe or north America quite well, but disliked much … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I looked up the obituary of the Belfast doctor who invented the portable defibrillator, and who died in January this year. I did so because it seemed obvious that a lot of suffering is caused by rescuing heart attack victims … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From Billmon, a sighting of a sentimental crusader. The really awful thing, when I look at this story, is that I know what the cries of a PVS patient sound like. In the Cheshire Home where I met my first … Continue reading → Continue reading →

John Brockman, who is, amongst other things, the agent of both Richard Dawkins and Dan Dennett, explains his religious views: I would never say I’m an atheist. But I mean – it’s the word. I don’t believe: I’m sure there’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My undying thanks are due to Stephen Bates, who forwarded me this letter from The English Churchman, a magazine which is the light of a religious correpondent’s life. If nothing else, it should correct the liberal fallacy that there could … Continue reading → Continue reading →