Category: God Notes
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Thinking on Prayer
Originally written: 02.07.2010 while in Lesotho. I think I should stop reading St. Thomas Aquinus, he’s giving me ideas above my station. The thought was as follows: Prayer transforms God’s power in potentia into God’s action in the world This is hardly, I would guess, a new thought, but it is a new one for…
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Robots and Gods : Thinking about Robots thinking about the existance of God.
While thinking about the nature of belief, it occurred to me that most people see the movement of God in their life through a high level of coincidence-type actions. When people see that their life fortuitously comes together, or improves despite some calamity, it is easy to see how this could be the action of…
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Re-Mythologising Christianity
Recently, I was reading “Stubborn Theological Questions”, by John Macquarrie. An interesting book which I found myself thoroughly disagreeing with. The problem, for me, was the current thrust to “De-Mythologise” Christianity. Denial of things like the Incarnation, and of explaining away Miracles as happenstance, or with other logical answers seems to be the way of…
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Batman On an Elephant. That is All.
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American Episcopate ahead of their time?
Amidst calls for another reformation in the Catholic Church, the American Episcopal Church is busy forging ahead on it’s own. The news that’s making the headlines is of course the consecration as Bishop of Canon Mary Glasspool. This is not because she’s a Woman, the presiding Bishop of the US Episcopal Church is Dr Katherine…
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Nate Phelps Speaks Out
The Westborough Baptist Church, under the stewardship of Fred Phelps have often been in the news, and mentioned on this Blog for their extreeme attacks on people they consider to be against God. Their slogans “God Hates Fags”, and “God Hates America” are well known; they believe that God has cursed America for what they…
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Why is the Church Obsessd with Sex?
Recently, I’ve been debating with a few people I know, the issues of Sex and the Church. It appears that the Church seems to mask “sex” in the lofty idea of “morality”. It appears, at least on a cursory glance at relevant press releases. It all seems to revolve around precisely what the point of…
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The Church In Wales’ View of Ordination (sort of)
I needed to do this as a quick presentation for a Class, so I thought I’d post it here for people who may be looking for a quick over-view. Church In Wales’ View of Ordination Anglican View of Ordination There are three main orders in the Anglican Church, two of which a person is traditionally…
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Fridge Magnet
Today I was given a Fridge Magnet. It’s something that’s going to go in my “Rainy Days and Mondays” file. It was the simplest of gifts, yet the story behind it was… well, huge. Let me start somewhere that could be thought of as the Begining. Last Week, I preached a Sermon. It was a…
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A commentry on “I am the Truth, the Way, and the Life”
Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6, NRSV This is one of those lines that quite annoys us liberals. It seems to portray a very narrow-minded view of God, and not one that sits quite happily with…
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The End of the Experiment
Well. A week spent of “letting Go, and Letting God”. Did I learn anything? Perhaps. I think the answer is probably something lame like “the middle way”. Not that there’s anything the matter with the middle way. I think though an important lesson has been (re)learnt. As is so often with these experiments, we notice…
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The Experiment, (Day 3)
So, today we had a Taize service. This is mostly lots of quiet meditative music, with bits being repeated, softly, gently and in harmony. Things being repeated for as long as was felt necessary, but all hte context of silence and meditative prayer. I had already been asked to serve at the ceremony, which was…
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Eve, distracted by the Shiny
Hello All, Here’s an interesting thought… Genesis, as a psudo-literal story is a very irritating read. There are two trees in the Garden of Eden, one of Good and Evil, and one Life. When Eve touched the tree, she had disobeyed God (NRSV Genesis 3:3). So she may as well have eaten it. Lets stop…
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Automatic Excommunication for Abortion
… though not necessarily for murder. This is one of those “I’m not really surprised” stories about the Roman Catholic Church. I was reading an article about how a nine-year old girl had an abortion after being raped by her father. A sensible act on an already traumatised child. However, the Catholic Church decided that…
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Goddess Rita, and the minor God, Olly
I was Stumbling around the internet, as is my want, when I really should have been doing other things, and I came accross a wonderful article about someone who’s trying to create a minor god called Olly. It was the kind of article with such a random opening that I found myself reading it. There…