Knox Box

Not quite a science blog, not quite a Bible blog, not quite a politics or family blog. Just a box into which almost anything might be thrown. Worth a rummage in. See the labels cloud on the right for an idea of what you might find.

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Saturday, 2 September 2023

Mourning Christianity (or at least its decline)

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Reports of the death of Christianity, like those of Mark Twain’s death, have been greatly exaggerated. Reports of the death of “Christian B...

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...

Saturday, 26 November 2022

The neo-Babylonian captivity of (some) evangelicals

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Around September 1520, Matin Luther published a tract. Along with his other writings, he would be invited to repudiate it at the Diet of Wor...

Thursday, 4 March 2021

Life in the pandemic XX: It feels a bit like 1517….

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As well as enjoying box-sets of the West Wing , I spend quite a lot of my time reading history. It was my best subject at school, and I woul...

Sunday, 18 August 2019

Don't ask me how I'm feeling

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Full disclosure – I’m a Scot. We have a reputation for being a dour, miserable lot. Some argue that this explains why we took to Calvinism...

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Paul C. Knox: I'm a Christian, in the Biblical as opposed to the ethnic or generic sense, retired academic scientist, and recently minted theology graduate. The way science and faith interact is of interest to me. You can find our more about my science on my web pages. But here I range far and wide.

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