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On God and health
A year ago last Friday, I was woken up at 4am by severe pain that I hadn’t had when I went to bed the previous night. By the end of the day, I’d had a major operation, and I spent the next few weeks in...
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What’s good about Friday?
Today is Good Friday, the day Christians celebrate the death of Jesus. However, if you’re not a Christian, you may wonder how the commemoration of somebody’s death can be described as “good”. The...
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It’s Resurrection Day
In English, today is called Easter Sunday, a phrase which somewhat obscures its real meaning. In most other European languages, the name for this festival is a variant of the word Passover – showing...
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Politics and the Christian Worldview
This is the next in a series of posts critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics According to the Bible. Today we deal with chapter four, in which he paints a picture of a Biblical worldview – something...
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Christmas vs Mammonmas
For Christians, Christmas is a celebration of Christ’s birth. It’s about God forgoing the pleasures of heaven, and becoming a man in order to live amongst us, demonstrate His character, and –...
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Why did Jesus Die?
Today is one of the two most important dates in the Christian calendar. Today is the day we celebrate Jesus’s death. Which, on the face of it, is a bit weird. Jews don’t celebrate the deaths of Abraham...
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Christ is Risen!
It’s resurrection day. It’s the day we celebrate the fact that Jesus rose from the grave and conquered death. Forget all that secular stuff about chocolate, eggs, and bunnies. The real point of today...
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The Problem with Christian Parties
Here in Coventry, a group called the Christian Movement for Great Britain are standing several candidates in the local elections. Their policy platform includes traditionally Christian stances like...
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St Nicholas
It’s St Nicholas’ Day today, and since Santa Claus (the god-figure of secular Christmases everywhere) takes his name from the saint in question, I thought I’d share this Santa-related video. H/T Justin...
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Hospital Chaplaincies
One of the things about having this blog is that I seem to have become the go-to person when anybody is looking for Christians within the Green Party. The most recent example of this is somebody who...
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Conservativism and Christendom
A couple of recent posts I’ve read have made me think about how our ecclesiology (that’s our theology about the church) affects the way we think about politics. The first is over at Think Theology,...
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Thoughts on Green Party Conference
I spent last weekend at Green Party conference in Liverpool. Every conference is different, and this time I was manning a stall for some of the time. This was on behalf of the new group within the...
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Faith and the Green Party DO mix
Yesterday, Gillan Scott (formerly of God and Politics UK, now blogging at Archbishop Cranmer) wrote a post with the provocative title “Green Party: Christians welcome, but only if you ignore your...
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Easter
It’s Easter Sunday, so here’s the Easter story reimagined in the form of a dance. Bookmark to:
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Advent Day 1: In the beginning
It always annoys me how the period covered by advent calendars only co-incides with advent itself one year in seven. So to relaunch this blog, I’ll be doing my own advent calendar of sorts. I plan to...
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Advent Day 2: The Word Became Flesh
In yesterday’s advent blog, we looked at the start of John’s gospel. The gospel begins with the a rather strange sentence: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was...
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Advent Day 3: Humility and Greatness
So far in our Advent series, we’ve talked about how God became a human being. Let’s continue on that theme. One of the early Christian leaders, a man called Paul, wrote this about Jesus: In your...
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Advent Day 4: After the Beginning
Earlier in this series, we talked about the start of the world, and how this relates to the Christmas story. Today, we’re looking a bit further on in the story. In Genesis 3, the Bible tells the story...
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Christmas vs Mammonmas
For Christians, Christmas is a celebration of Christ’s birth. It’s about God forgoing the pleasures of heaven, and becoming a man in order to live amongst us, demonstrate His character, and –...
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Why did Jesus Die?
Today is one of the two most important dates in the Christian calendar. Today is the day we celebrate Jesus’s death. Which, on the face of it, is a bit weird. Jews don’t celebrate the deaths of Abraham...
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