According to this news story a man was told at a polling station that he should not be voting. What can I say, other than if true I find this really shocking. The idea of disenfranchising people is not what democracy is about. The story says that the returning officer has launched an …
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Today was the day of the big timetable change. As a commuter I rely on the trains, today was the day that has been looked for. From October they were reassuring us as we crammed into overcrowded carriages like sardines that new trains were to be bought in the new year. New year arrived, nothing …
Sometimes the police have to gather criminal intelligence so that they can solve rimes. Sometimes it isn't necessary. Some criminals are criminally stupid. Take a story from the paper this week. A man goes into the bank to tell them of a change of address, sees the money in the tills and decides to rob …
I never set out to write a series of blogs like this. The announcement by the Evangelical Alliance that the membership of Oasis Trust had been discontinued did not come as much as a surprise given the statements the Alliance had made into opposing same sex marriages. The EA press release mentioned what has been perceived …
So what about Paul? If anyone wants proof that homosexuality is wrong from the New Testament point of view usually quote St Paul. Just three short passages: Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonouring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped …
I fought the law... In the last 2 blogs I've looked at what Jesus said about homosexuality and whether the sin of Sodom was homosexuality or something else. Now I'm now looking at the Jewish law. Under the constraints I've put myself under this is harder. These are among my constraints: So history must be …
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 …
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 …
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, 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 …
