Hagar Where is God in this (i) 'Where is God in this?'—I intend this to be an occasional series in my blogs, although only the first two are planned, about those really difficult, uncomfortable parts of the Bible, and where God is to be found in those stories. Among the worst of the stories in …
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Happy and blessed 7: The pure
Happy and blessed 7: The pure... Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God - Matthew 5:8 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit. - Proverbs 16:2 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. - Psalm 51:10 Purity …
C S Lewis and the problem of Susan
C S Lewis and the problem of Susan Susan Pevensie, one of the four fictional children who enter Narnia in C S Lewis's children's book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a problem to the adult readers of the final book in the series The Last Battle. Unlike all the other protagonists of …
Names of God – Part 28
Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. - Song of Solomon 7:7-8 ESV
The compromising church
40 blogs of Lent - Day 14 The compromising church Messages to the churches - Day 11 Pergamum - Day 3 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat …
Lust
Everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Valentine
It is that time of year again, as St Valentine's day approaches when the advertising media focuses on love. Sorry, not love, sentimentality. See what I mean? (And as a Yorkshireman I have to declare those roses are the wrong colour.) The main thing I dislike about St Valentine's day is the way that it excludes single …
Latest conquest – Rape culture.
From Metro 14/01/2015: Rhianna looked sheepish after it emerged she may be Leonardo DiCaprio's latest conquest. Yes that's right, conquest. Yet again the idea of man as predator woman as prey has come out in the press. Metro, the free newspaper picked up on buses ans at train stations in the UK uses the quote …
Let’s talk about sex
There's a funny thing about sex. No I'n not saying the old joke that a woman naked except for her stockings is erotic, but a man naked except for his socks is ridiculous. But I an talking about what is erotic. It isn;t as simple as a lack of clothes, On holiday this tear there …
Making an ass of myself 