The blog of Richard Hall, a Methodist Minister in Wales.
From the monthly archives:
… What is meant by the ‘one’ in mono-theism? Does it mean ‘one’ as opposed to two, three, or seventy-nine? In which case it is one as a number, and is opposed to other numbers. In that case, since whenever we define something over against something, it is true to say that [...]
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Dear Mr. N.N.,
You very kindly sent me your writing along with an accompanying letter. I thank you for this but I also have to admit quite openly that I took no pleasure in reading it.
As opposed to what you learned from the other side, I have to say that precisely ‘in essentials’ I am [...]
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Dear N.N.,
Many thanks for your kind letter. But what an obstinate fellow you are! You write that you were very impressed with what I told you last week in the Theological School. And now you manage to put down on paper all that nonsense about the kingdom of God that we must [...]
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THIS, this is the God we adore,
Our faithful, unchangeable friend;
Whose love is as great as his power,
And neither knows measure nor end.
‘Tis Jesus, the First and the Last,
Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home;
We’ll praise him for all that is past,
And trust him for all that’s to come.
Joseph Hart
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“American Protestants do not believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America. The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America [...]
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BBC Wales reports briefly.
It did rain particularly hard. But the sun is shining now.
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Lansbury’s Lido reacts to commodity market speculation in “I should cocoa”. I can only echo his “How long?”
It is extraordinary to me how The Market has come to be deified and presented as an objective reality which governs our economic life with the same inevitability that gravity governs the motions of the planet. The truth [...]
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From the BBC
Greater regulation of the food market should be introduced by the government to stabilise food prices, according to an anti-poverty group.
A World Development Movement report said banks which caused the financial downturn created volatile food prices.
It said bankers poured money into commodities like wheat and maize after giving up on failed mortgages.
Banks have [...]
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I slipped down some stone steps while walking the dog this morning. Seemed all right at the time, but I ache all over now.
I’m just saying…
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Kim Fabricius reviews The Writing on the Wall, the latest book from maggi dawn.
He likes it.
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Fat Prophet is angry about female genital mutilation.
This World Health Organization fact sheet is worth looking at if you need a refresher on the issues.
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Souls of men, why will ye scatter
like a crowd of frightened sheep?
Foolish hearts, why will ye wander
from a love so true and deep?
Was there ever kindest shepherd
half so gentle, half so sweet,
as the Saviour who would have us
come and gather round his feet?
It is God: his love looks mighty,
but is mightier than it seems:
’tis our [...]
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From the BBC:
“Photos taken by a mountaineer on Everest from the same spot where similar pictures were taken in 1921 have revealed an “alarming” ice loss.
The Asia Society (AS) arranged for the pictures to be taken in exactly the same place where British climber George Mallory took photos in 1921.
“The photographs reveal a startling truth: [...]
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PamBG rails against the Vatican
Apparently, on some Planet Ratzinger in a universe of parallel morality far far away, violating the stricture of Church tradition and ordaining women is equal in immorality to sexual abuse of a child. Wow, if that’s the case then we really had better get cracking and make sure that we pounce [...]
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In the Jewish Chronicle, Geoffrey Alderman welcomes the decision of the Board of Deputies to break off dialogue with the Methodist Church.
The breach with the Methodists is to be welcomed not simply because they have enthusiastically embraced a report on the Middle East that is a catalogue of lies and half-truths.
If that alone had been [...]
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“… We would rather swim in the comfortable lukewarm bath of stupidity. It’s the democratic solution, if we are to believe Walter Pitkin, who puts the proportion of stupid people at 80 per cent of the population and, unhappily, goes on to point out that the 20 per cent who aren’t stupid stupidly underestimate [...]
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Greed presumes and perpetuates a world of scarcity and want - a world in which there is never “enough.” But a world shaped by scarcity is a world that cannot trust that God has given all that we need.
Greed, in other words, prohibits faith. But the inverse is also true. For it is in the [...]
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