It's been a sad week for popular music. Two musical innovators passed away this week, both aged 82. Sly Stone, 1943 – 2025 Last Monday, 9th June, saw the death of Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone. Sly and the Family Stone, created by …
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The Significance of Christus Victor in Atonement
Understanding atonement Lent 2024 - Part 8, Christus Victor This Lent, I reflect deeply on the profound significance of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection, exploring the various theories embraced or historically cherished by Christian churches. This journey reveals a rich tapestry of beliefs and interpretations. It's important to acknowledge that there is more than a …
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Keep the church weird
Keep the church weird As a tribute to Christian writer Rachel Held Evans, who died yesterday aged 37, I simply leave this: Praying for her family, may her leagacy live on. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kZQWfRU4tPw
Matthew’s Passion: The cross is victory
Matthew's Passion: The dawn of the dead? 40 Blogs of Lent: 37 Matthew 27:51-56 What are we to make of the zombie apocalypse in Matthew's Gospel? Jesus dies, God dies and then tombs are opened and the dead roam the streets like a scene from The Dawn Of The Dead. The events in Matthew's Gospel …
Dead is dead
Dead is dead My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 30 March 2013 -o0o- Death is pretty final, once dead that’s it, there’s no going back. Forty …
Death and Life
40 blogs of Lent - Day 8 Death and Life Messages to the churches - Day 6 Smyrna - Day 1 And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life. Smyrna was located north of Ephesus in a powerful trading position on …
The tree of life
40 blogs of Lent - Day 7 The tree of life A train of thought experiment in free verse Messages to the churches - Day 5 Ephesus - Day 4 To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’ The tree of life God …
Death and taxes
I am the resurrection. 40 blogs of Lent, day 15 "‘Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes,” - Christopher Bullock, Usually attributed to Benjamin Franklin Jesus did mention taxes, but not in the I am statemrnts in John's Gospel so today I am talking about death. Death is the context here. Jesus' …
Life after life?
I have just finished re-reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, a really good comedic read. Chapter 7 ends with one of my favourite cliffhangers: "Gordon Way's astonishment at being shot dead was nothing to his astonishment at what happened next." What happens after death is a question that fascinates even atheist authors …
Making an ass of myself 