Jonathan Clatworthy
May 16, 2022
The service at All Hallows Leeds yesterday was run by its group supporting refugees. We were told about the Home Office’s regulations and how we can […]
April 29, 2022
I have just attended meetings about Ukraine on three successive days. They have helped me ask: how should British Christians feel about it? Granted that most […]
April 15, 2022
Unusually, last week I watched the BBC’s Question Time. I was left feeling the issues were being debated strictly within the media echo chamber. Perhaps Holy […]
April 4, 2022
In my last post I described how the healings Jesus did were the kinds of things traditional healers do. In general, what the gospels report may […]
March 23, 2022
According to the gospels, Jesus often healed people. To us his healings seem weird – so unlike what we expect from doctors. Some people have explained […]
March 6, 2022
War. Oh yes, we know how to relate to that. It triggers the oldest part of the human brain, the bit we share with lizards. Fight […]
March 2, 2022
This is a guest post by Pauline Fleck. Pauline is a trans woman. She describes her experience of joining, and then leaving, the Roman Catholic Church […]
February 22, 2022
What if the boot is on the other foot? We’ve had a couple of centuries of atheists arguing that science undermines belief in God. But what […]
February 11, 2022
In my last post I described the story about the second century healer Apollonius of Tyana, and how René Girard analysed it as a scapegoating process. […]