Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Monday, 10 November 2025

Theology and its mojo

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I noted previously that the great materialist project that dominated thinking about who we are as persons (and much else) may be, in Mary ...
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...
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 ...
Monday, 24 June 2024

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  Faith, at least in some quarters, had almost become a dirty word, such that to call someone a “person of faith” was to question their inte...
Saturday, 27 August 2022

Methodological musings

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Summer is nearly over, school exam results are in, and the traditional English pastime of agonizing over the education system is in full swi...
Saturday, 15 May 2021

Life in the pandemic XXV The touching faith of atheists…….

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Atheism, in its various forms, has a very old and in some quarters a cherished history. It’s a history that many modern-day atheists seem to...
Saturday, 24 October 2020

Life in the Pandemic XIV: The fictional and the fake……

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I freely admit it. I’m a fan of Sorkin snappy dialogue. Aaron Sorkin is the screenwriter behind films like “A Few Good Men”, “Charlie Wilson...
Sunday, 10 May 2020

Life in the Pandemic IV: Where should we place our faith?

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There is a lot of faith about at the moment (something I noted previously ). Some of it is obvious, some of it less so. But it’s there. In...
Thursday, 26 March 2020

Life in the pandemic I: The return of the experts….

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It wasn’t that long ago that some were lamenting the death of reason and the revolt against experts. TV studios were filled with serious l...
Sunday, 26 January 2020

Faith in aliens….

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I am not a famous ex-anything.   I’m not an ex-premier league footballer making even more of my millions. I’m not an ex-MP or ex-minister ...