"People from other countries are not like us," starts so many racist statements. That is the bigger part of the problem. Another part is double empathy, we judge them because they do things differently to us. How desperate do you need to be to trust yourself to the open seas in a rubber boat? Seeking …
Category: Politics
Empowering Honesty
Lies, damn lies and YouTube I awoke in Tuesday morning last week to see a long rant about face masks on Twitter. Not someone not wanting to wear one, but someone complaining that his mother, a former nurse who had had to wear masks at work was telling him of the dangers of masks and …
Disney Princess theology — Psalm 125
Life is a roller-coaster White Christianity suffers from a bad case of Disney Princess theology. As each individual reads Scripture they see themselves as the princess in every story. They are Esther, never Xerxes or Haman. They are Peter, but never Judas. They are the woman anointing Jesus, never the Pharisees. They are the Jews …
It is not about me #BlackLivesMatter
I have lined up on the next few weeks blog posts about how my disability affects me in the coronavirus shutdown and another about how stress affects my autism. But for now it is not about me. Today I want to talk about how Black Lives Matter. An apology to black people I am sorry. …
Getting your rant on — Psalm 120
Don't let them gaslight you At the beginning of the year, after reading through the Bible twice in two and a half years, I felt that this year was to be one of prayer and worshipping God. One of the things I decided back then to do, once the major festivals of the year were …
How to survive lockdown with your marriage intact?
Lockdown and stress on relationships Let me start with a warning. I am neither a psychologist, psychiatrist not anything else beginning psy. All I can say is how rhings have affected me and the relationship in our marriage. People are different, some parner up with people with a similar personality and similar interests. They tend …
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George Floyd is our brother, our father, our cousin, our friend – by Neil Charlton – Grace + Truth
I was finding it hard to say how disgusted I was with the killing of George Floyd, being a white British man. Instead, I am pointing you to this, written by a black man. To me, it gets to the heart of the matter. It made me cry. Thank you for writing this, Neil Charlton. …
God hates the same people that I hate
How can a book of love become a book of hate? How did the Bible, a book of love get turned into an excuse for hatred? How did the book of Leviticus, a book of joy about how God wishes to to heal our grief and bring reconciliation between each other and between people …
Where did all the toilet rolls go?
Shortages in supermarkets are not the fault of hoarding Commercial and domestic supply lines Shortages: They are down to people hoarding, aren't they? The answer is yes and no. Yes because people are hoarding, but no because hoarding is not the cause of the shortages, shortages are the cause of shortages. People are seeing poorly …
The General Election, one month on
The General Election, one month on It's now a month since the last General Election here in the UK. I have left off commenting until now because I needed time for the disappointment that had set in following the result. My problem is that I value truth highly. It could be because of autism or …
