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Category Archives: Gospel
Spiritual DIY
There appears to be something of a theme developing amongst the intellectuals at the BBC. In May GospelBlog noted an article by Tom Shakespeare that posited the idea that the optimal solution for a happy life is to be religious while … Continue reading
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Moving the Goalposts
To my delight, and the considerable massaging of my ego, I discover that I can wear Slim-Fit shirts! Quite how this can be the case given that my current BMI only just squeezes below the ‘overweight’ category on the NHS … Continue reading
Forced Converts
Two stories in the media have caught my eye today. Firstly, the Sudanese lady, Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag has thankfully been able to leave Sudan. Meriam, who was raised by her mother as a nominal christian was caught in an … Continue reading
Attaining Perfection
The City of Glasgow is rising steadily to fever pitch at it approaches the formal start to the 2014 Commonwealth Games this evening. The event will see athletes from across the world compete at the highest level – even if … Continue reading
Telling the Time
The sun is shining on Princes Street Gardens. The benches are all fully occupied. Children are running around on the grass … And the floral clock is back in position, complete with cuckoo. It must be Summer again. Edinburgh … Continue reading
The Dark Side
As if the Internet were not enormous and degraded enough, there are increasing rumblings in the media and from the UK’s National Crime Agency of a parallel ‘dark net’. In this murky environment it is apparently possible to completely conceal … Continue reading
Relative Morality
So the USA and the UK are, if not exactly friends, now on nodding acquaintance terms with Iran. Perhaps in the global quagmire of international relationships such pragmatic changes of direction are inevitable. Still, it seems we have come a … Continue reading
From a Distance
A number of news outlets have recently published a photograph of New York taken by the American astronaut Frank Culbertson from the International Space Station on September 11 2001. This shocking image has reawakened for many of us a sense … Continue reading
How Much Is a Life Worth?
The horrendous news from Boston over the past week has reignited another round of national soul searching in America. Commentators are falling over one another to express a view on why two apparently normal young men should wish to wreak … Continue reading
I Don’t Want to Die
If ever we needed an example of the fact that death is the great social leveller, we have had it in the past week. A few years ago one of my brothers was asked to visit a poor old lady … Continue reading