Sunday, 17 November 2024

The Fall of Jericho: biblical genocide?

›
The guest preacher, Terry Boyle , at the Church I attend this morning (Sunday 17/11/2024) preached on this reading: Joshua 5: 13–15   The Fa...
Monday, 30 September 2024

What to do about Psalm 124?

›
Yesterday (29 th September 2024) I was on the rota for reading at Church, and found myself reading Psalm 124 , one of the lectionary readin...
1 comment:
Sunday, 8 September 2024

Why create God? Thoughts at a funeral

›
I recently attended a funeral at the local crematorium with about 17 mourners. I didn't really know the deceased, though he was someone ...
Friday, 6 September 2024

The Sea of Faith Network: Religion as a human creation

›
From 2025 I shall be editing Sofia magazine : the magazine of the Sea of Faith Network .  Or, more precisely, I shall be editing the magazin...
Friday, 8 March 2024

The rifle brought about the birth of these United States

›
 From Geoff Mann "Give your mom a gun" ( LRB Vol. 46 No. 5 · 7 March 2024 ) Guns are central to America’s mythology. In the patrio...
Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Counting the killings

›
When interviewees are condemning the killing of Palestinians by Israel on, for example, the BBC, the interviewer invariably demands that the...
Sunday, 18 February 2024

Understanding events in Palestine through the narrative of the Racial Contract of Charles W. Mills

›
According to the “Racial Contract” of Charles W. Mills [1] there is a binary divide: white and nonwhite. The whites are fully human, have t...