Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Wednesday, 24 December 2025

Christmas observation is interpretation

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All observation is interpretation; I’m sure someone must have said that before. It has certainly been widely discussed. We never simply “see...
Friday, 19 December 2025

Deeply unimpressive

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It is hard to imagine anyone splashing the headline “Pregnant teenager has baby”. It’s just not that impressive. Teenagers have been having ...
Tuesday, 16 December 2025

On Christmas plans….

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What plans do you have for Christmas? Perhaps you have a particular present in mind for that special one (or have been thus instructed). But...
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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 ...
Wednesday, 27 December 2023

My new car has a dent in it….

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Tis the season of stuff. Much of it will be welcome stuff - presents we’ve been looking forward to, perhaps that we requested or hinted at. ...
Tuesday, 19 December 2023

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I’ve decided to try and be constructive rather than just rant, even although the temptation to rant has been with me since mid-September. Th...
Friday, 23 December 2022

It’s Christmas on Sunday…….

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You wouldn’t think it was that big a deal that December 25 th happens to be a Sunday. And for most of the planet’s 8 billion inhabitants it...
Monday, 19 December 2022

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The Christmas movie channels popped up, unbidden, in September. TV adverts for Christmas food started in early October, and the John Lewis a...
Thursday, 30 December 2021

Christmas Reflections 2021 #2 Not just a baby…..

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The world still spins on its axis and there are no obvious signs of it ending any time soon. Neither of these observations means that it won...
Wednesday, 22 December 2021

Christmas Reflections 2021 #1 Grimness again……

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Reflecting on last year’s reflections seemed like a good place to start this year. One of them centred on the grimness of the original event...
Monday, 20 December 2021

Numbers game: Christianity in retreat…?

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The end of December is an interesting time of year for all sorts of reasons, some more logical than others. It marks (although somewhat arbi...
Saturday, 4 December 2021

Missed metaphor......

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Here was me thinking I would just do a quick search on the subject of metaphor and its uses (mainly because I heard Noel Gallagher talking a...