Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. Thus starts the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. But what I really want to talk about is the anti Semitism that is supposedly rife in the Labour party: Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has said words condemning Labour over this . (Mr Cameron …
Category: God blogs
Fundamentalism and the Pope
Pope Francis has spoken out against training fundamentalists as priests as they could be hiding psychological problems. Story here. As someone on the autistic spectrum, therefore seen as having a psychological problem (it is a problem to other people, not me) I may sympathise, but realistically I know that people like me who do not …
Tolerance
You are clearly a tolerant person, who is thoughtful about the needs of other people. So says a quiz on the Guardian web site. So it must be right — uch to the dismay of those who know me. The quiz was called are you as nice as you think you are, so that would …
Are you sure?
Holy Trinity Huddersfield, 17 April 2016 We learnt from vicar Mike Wilkins at the Church Annual Meeting today that the congregation had grown. Some have come from other churches, but a few are new to church or have not attended for some time. He said that filling in the numbers for the powers that be …
Truth and persecution
Two stories from the news this week concerning the Christian church undergoing persecution. The first concerns Fr Tom Uzhunnalil who was kidnapped from an old people's home on 4 March 2016 in a raid that killed 4 nuns and 20 others. The religious organisation that Fr Tom belonged to, the Missionaries of Charity, and the diocese of …
Last prayers
Today was my last day reading the intercessions in church. At least the last for now. All our rotas come to an end in two weeks time. We are moving on to having two Sunday morning services, one more traditional with organ music at 9am and one less traditional with a worship band (guitars, drums …
The Sound of Silence
Sometimes it takes someone from a Jewish background to interpret things in the Old testament we miss as Christians miss or take for granted. In this regard, my favourite Jewish theologian is the singer and songwriter Paul Simon. On of the first songs Simon wrote and released with Art Garfunkel was the Sound of Silence. …
Resurrection and transformation
Easter in the real world Happy Easter. Hallelujah, Christ is risen! God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. Acts 2:24 God raised him on the third day Acts 10:40 Jesus was raised from the dead. Only a couple of days earlier …
Trust
Trust 40 blogs of Lent 7 words from the cross Father, into your hands I commit my spirit It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun's light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, calling out with …
Victory
Victory 40 blogs of Lent, day 39 7 words from the cross It is finished After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfil the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held …
Making an ass of myself 