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 …
Tag: Christianity
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 …
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 …
A message to the liberals.
Thanks. Thank you for challenging my faith. Especially with regard to John's Gospel. I'm one of those fairly conservative evangelical sort of guys, with a sort of charismatic twist, and a leaning towards catholic techniques of meditation, such as Lectio Divina. Normally when I hear what liberal Christians say it makes me think, and normally …
Jesus is political
Jesus is Lord. We sing that and proclaim that on Sundays and other days. But I sometimes think that we don't realise how political that statement is. Back in the day when the Bible was being written and the early Christians began saying Jesus is Lord, the politicians were telling people to proclaim that Caesar …
What’s so penitential about fish?
Thursday night, my wife, Linda, and I ate at the Loch Fyne fish restaurant in Leeds. I had potted mackerel followed by hake with tomato salsa. Linda had tempura soft shell crab followed by grilled bream. Well it is a fish restaurant. The food was as good as anything I've eaten. Which got me thinking …
Reconciliation
I didn't get to the Ash Wednesday service last week, delayed trains and all. but a chance remark in the sermon that day is being felt by some who were there. Wht was said is this: Lent is about reconciliation. Reconciling ourselves to ourselves. Reconciling ourselves to others Reconciling ourselves to God. With all the …
… and in the depth be praise.
Psalms The songs that you find in the middle of the Bible are a bit of a mixed bag. Which is probably why we use the word psalm, from the Greek meaning song, rather than the Hebrew title Tehillim, which means praises. I mean, how can this be praise? O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, …
Putting it together.
The last two blogs have been about the creation accounts of Genesis, the first comparing them with modern scientific theories and the second with the other middle eastern creation theories. Now here's a third one. There are many who attack religion as being anti-rational. I have tried to explain in the first blog that this …
History lessons
And God saw that it was good In the last blog I said that the first chapters of Genesis were not Science.If I said they were not history either I would expect a certain response, especially from conservative Christians. So let me explain. History is written by people who are there at the time. Not …
Making an ass of myself 