Showing posts with label Bible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bible. Show all posts
Friday, 22 August 2025

On “Losing my religion”….

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I am a mandolin player. Or perhaps more accurately I should say that I play the mandolin. On this side of the Anglo-Saxon Atlantic, mandolin...
Saturday, 16 August 2025

Words, texts and their mattering….

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I like words. Sometimes it’s just the sound of individual words that I’m drawn to (like ‘flibbertigibbet’). You may well have your own favou...
Saturday, 26 July 2025

One hundred and fifty years (and counting)

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Just as we have done for the last few years at this point in the summer, we decamped to Keswick in the English Lake District. It’s a shortis...
Monday, 30 December 2024

The stories we tell….

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My reading project for 2025 is N. T. Wright’s “Christian Origins and the Question of God”. But because I managed to finish my 2024 project (...
Monday, 9 December 2024

How come you can understand this….?

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One of my 2024 reading objectives was to read Calvin’s “Institutes of the Christian Religion” from cover to cover over the year. I managed i...
Saturday, 30 November 2024

“Was Jesus a Jew?” (and other matters)….

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I would like to stress that the above question is not mine, b ut one that was put to me this week. It was not asked by someone trying to be ...
Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Not “vs” but “and” (so get over it).

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I still occasionally come across talks entitled (to give but one example) “Religion vs Science: Can the two coexist?”; as of writing, the ...
Friday, 29 March 2024

Easter retuning…..

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We all perceive through filters. While this has a specific technical meaning, the technicalities needn’t detain us for too long; the general...
Saturday, 3 February 2024

It’s (as yet) all Greek to me

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I’ve mentioned my studies a couple of times (see here and here ). Alas, formally they are now over. I say alas because I have really enjoye...
Sunday, 12 November 2023

Science’s problems – getting bigger?

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In my last post (" Science's big problem(s )") I pointed out that science was a human activity, and therefore prone to being l...
Saturday, 1 July 2023

Disciplinary matters…..

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I have written previously about my switching disciplines at a relatively late stage of life, swapping my scientific laboratory for a desk ...