Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 December 2025

Reading for 2025 (no further)

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The title of this post is, I admit, a bit cryptic. You’ll have look back at this January post to get it. But having tee’d up my reading for...
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...
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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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...
Tuesday, 25 February 2025

It’s still bright at 5pm…

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One way or another I spend quite a lot of time looking out of my study window. While it does not afford a view of rolling hills, and I can o...
Friday, 24 January 2025

Reading for 2025 (so far...)

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  How long does it take for a tradition to become a tradition? I have no idea. But I think I'll stick with one that began only twelve mo...
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, 16 October 2024

The fall and rise (ups and downs) and rise…….

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While it is not inevitable, life can be a bit of a downer. And no matter how far we rise, what is inevitable for each and every one of us is...
Sunday, 21 July 2024

On ritual, signs and symbols…..

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We do ritual so well in this country. Case in point, the state opening of Parliament. More robes than you could shake a stick at. And on 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, 6 January 2024

"Of the making of books......"

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A new year, and a new pile of books has appeared (as if by magic). It is just a little pile for the moment. One of them is part of a longer ...