Yesterday it was the words of Jesus. Today I want to look at the Old Testament and Sodom. Yes Sodom, what could be more damning than that? We even have an English word, sodomy, derived from that name so it must be about gay sex, mustn't it? Well yes and no. This is what happened …
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Theology changes its mind (part 3)
What did Jesus say? Not quite WWJD, bur close. This is what is often quoted as evidence that Jesus thought that homosexuality was wrong: Matthew 19:4-5: (ESV) He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother …
Theology changes its mind (part 2)
How to interpret the Bible Before we can look at how we are to interpret the Bible in the light of science we have to define how we have to look at scripture. Now I come from an Evangelical tradition as well as an Anglican tradition. I really want to see if it is possible …
Theology changes its mind (part 1)
Theology changes its mind, but so does science. About a month ago I wrote in the blog "What is Theology for" that we should be looking at how we interpret the Bible in the light of what science is telling us. First let me say this. What science says isn't fixed. It changes. Often. Sometimes …
Dear Mr Helmer … an open letter
This I found profound and sad.
Churches and the media
Last week I read a blog. Nothing unusual about that, it was a blog urging churches to use the media more. I found it via a Facebook or Twitter link, or it could have been via the blogging site WordPress, I can't remember where I linked from or who it was by and I can't …
Models
Climate change and Theology (part 2) I have been looking at the TED Talks. One which is up this month is by climate scientist Gavin Schmidt on the emergent patterns of climate change. When talking of models of climate change Schmidt says, "Modals are not right or wrong, they're always wrong. They are approximations." The question …
Emergent
Climate change and Theology (part 1) I have been looking at the TED Talks. One which is up this month is by climate scientist Gavin Schmidt on the emergent patterns of climate change. The first thing that struck me was the use of the word emergent, or rather the label emergent. It is one of …
I feel like I should pray, can you show me how?
"I feel like I should pray, can you show me how?" The words of a grieving boy after the death of his teacher. (See previous blog.) But how do we deal with a question like this? Jesus gave his disciples the Lord's Prayer when asked. It is a good blueprint for prayer. In reality when …
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Church is irrelevant?
Church is irrelevant in today's society. So they tell me, and so it would seem, until a catastrophe happens. Yesterday in Leeds a school a teacher was murdered in the classroom. Today the school was still open, but there was a service at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church. But yesterday evening, according to a report …
Making an ass of myself 