July 28, 2022
It looks like we are in for a few months of strikes. As more and more people are being financially squeezed, resistance is increasing. The media, […]
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 […]
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. […]
January 15, 2022
This is a summary of what Jesus was up to between his baptism by John and his final journey into Jerusalem. It was my sermon for […]
December 31, 2021
When I was half my present age, we would take our children to a local park. We’d carefully hold hands, looking both ways as we crossed […]
December 21, 2021
Christmas carols. I love the tunes. But the more theology I read, the more unhappy I become with the words. There are exceptions, but most fit […]
September 18, 2021
When, around the year 200, Clement of Alexandria wrote Which Rich People Can Be Saved?, most Christians thought they couldn’t. When Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson […]