Category Archives: God

All you need know about heresy

Posted on January 6, 2008 by acb

This morning I found in a bookshelf the copy of Volume 2 of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall which I had been reading 22 years ago, when appointed the Independent’s religious affairs correspondent. It might seem absurd now to prepare for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Godly Snippets

Posted on January 3, 2008 by acb

An interesting piece of spontaneous ritual here, "from the Guardian:":http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,2234023,00.html a story about a boy who woke up in hospital after a car crash and had to be told that three of his friends, who had been in the front … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Two short notes on theology

Posted on December 21, 2007 by acb

I can’t resist quoting at length from a glorious piece by Fred Clark on his problems with a spam filter. Clark is a Baptist journalist, whose blog, the Slacktivist, contains an extended, gloriously funny, deconstruction of the Left Behind books, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Are virtues Christian?

Posted on December 6, 2007 by acb

Someone — I think Phillip Pullman — was complaining the other day that he got really pissed off by the claim that love, goodness, courage, etc, were “christian virtues”, since they can be exhibited by atheists and other non-Christians. Are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Ultimate procrastination

Posted on November 20, 2007 by acb

Thanks to John Naughton I have just stumbled upon a site which appears to list every public or semi-public talk being given in or around Cambridge University. It is a glorious searchable toyshop of interesting ideas and almost the best … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I dreamed I saw Saint Augustines

Posted on November 17, 2007 by acb

(this is, by coincidence, Entry 1500: apologies if you thought the blog would suddenly go all profound and witty) Am off to Avignon for four days tomorrow, travelling first class on Eurostar, because it is only an extra 30 Euros. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Midgley and metaphysics

Posted on November 16, 2007 by acb

I pulled down Science and Salvation last night and it fell open at a discussion of the truth of large metaphysical assertions which is a useful way of following on from the comments to my earlier piece. It’s quite a … Continue reading →

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Hicks and wiseguys

Posted on November 15, 2007 by acb

Ophelia Benson and others are having fun with a survey in Christianity Today asking what are “the most compelling arguments for Christianity”. The choices are The exquisiteness of the physical world (6%) The reliability of the Scriptures (21%) The life … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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how journalism works

Posted on November 12, 2007 by acb

One of the odder things I do is to write a column on religion in the media for the Church Times and one of the odder difficulties with that is I feel I ought to try not to say too … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Enoch Powell considered as a Christian

Posted on October 3, 2007 by acb

One of the things about having used computers for a long time is that your records go back a long way In particular, because I have been using Ecco, on and off, for nearly fifteen years now, I have some … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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