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June 19, 2013 Is it God’s will?
Posted on 19 June 2013, 8:54
Perhaps you already know this story: “All fifteen members of a church choir in Beatrice, Nebraska, due at practice at 7:20, were late on the evening of March 1, 1950. The minister and his wife and daughter had one reason (his wife delayed to iron the daughter’s dress) one girl waited to finish…
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“Jesus gave His life as a ransom for many”
Posted on 04 June 2013, 9:11
For almost 60 years as a priest in the Anglican Church I have been saying the words, “The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life. Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart by faith…
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Rowan Williams and Richard Dawkins at Oxford
Posted on 22 May 2013, 9:10
I have been watching a video of the debate between the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams (below) and noted biologist Richard Dawkins at the Sheldonean Theatre, Oxford on February 23, 2012. The topic of the debate was, “On Human Nature and Ultimate Origins.” The moderator…
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Is God Happy?
Posted on 07 May 2013, 9:29
That’s the title of an interesting article by a Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski. But we are not going to get a meaningful answer until we sort out what we are doing when we use the word “God.” Failure to do this poses us with all sorts of insoluble conundrums, including the perennial Problem…
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Sacred Geometry and St John
Posted on 23 April 2013, 8:39
Wheels within wheels… there are often hidden layers of meaning in Jesus’ teaching. I am reminded of Luke 8:10 where we read, “And [Jesus] said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others [I talk] in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they…
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On avoiding being one-eyed
Posted on 09 April 2013, 17:43
Each one of us, from time to time, needs to step back from our customary point of view, and acknowledge that reality is many faceted: We must not become one-eyed about what is real: reality is more than what psychic research reveals, it is more than what churches talk about, it more than scientific…
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“Religiously observant Americans are better neighbours”
Posted on 12 March 2013, 9:53
I’m impressed with a new book called The Righteous Mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion, by Jonathan Haidt, and published in January. 
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Trailing clouds of glory
Posted on 26 February 2013, 16:22
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
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Fundamentalism v. Scepticism: the Middle Way
Posted on 13 February 2013, 6:07
As a liberal Anglican clergyman, I feel caught between fundamentalists and the clergy who deny the reality of the spiritual dimension. Such clergy really exist! Books published by White Crow can be important in nourishing open-minded churchgoers who have not become materialists. I was invited…
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Psychic Research and Spirituality.
Posted on 08 January 2013, 10:53
Do afterlife studies help us to be more spiritually advanced people? They do help us to be sure that there is a spiritual dimension to reality, and that is a big help. But we still have to sacrifice self-centredness and surrender in prayer to a wider consciousness. Psychic research…
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