Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Friday, 18 April 2025

“Who does He think He is”?

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This is a question that occurs to most of us at some point. It is usually unspoken, occasionally spluttered in indignation. It is most often...
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 ...
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...
Sunday, 9 April 2023

Easter 2023: Welcome to the flip side….

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Poor Matthew (Parris) doesn’t get it. I get why he doesn’t get it. And he isn’t alone. His problem is both relatively straightforward and re...
Friday, 7 April 2023

Easter 2023: How come the world still spins?

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The death of a child, a spouse, a parent, comes as a shattering blow. It is one that I haven’t experienced personally yet but I know that on...
Wednesday, 5 April 2023

Easter 2023: The calm between storms…..

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It is unclear what Jesus and His disciples did during the middle of what has come to be called “Holy Week”. In part this is because ancient ...
Friday, 15 April 2022

What’s so good about this Good Friday?

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Just as grave concerns about a global pandemic, caused by a new virus for which there wasn’t initially a test or cure, begin to recede (whet...
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...
Saturday, 24 April 2021

Life in the pandemic XXIV Alice through the twitter glass…….

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I am fairly sure that (most) humanists are nice people. Certainly, the current president of Humanists UK, Alice Roberts, has always struck m...
Tuesday, 6 April 2021

Life in the pandemic XXIII: Easter Reflections – No offense, but……

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I recently mentioned my liking for reading history (at the time I was reading McGrath on reformation thought). I am happy to report that I ...
Friday, 2 April 2021

Life in the pandemic XXII: Easter Reflections - Singing in the darkness..

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Last year at Easter we were just getting used to lockdown – working from home, one hour’s exercise a day and the rest. It made for an intere...