Tuesday, 20 July 2021

Life in the pandemic XXIX Keswick in the transition…

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Once again, for the second time in the pandemic, we have made our way to England’s beautiful Lake District, to the market town of Keswick. T...
Thursday, 15 July 2021

Life in the pandemic XXVIII More atheist wobbling…..

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I’ve got a lot of respect for honest atheists. They have a long and interesting heritage. Many are thoughtful about why they think as they d...
Monday, 28 June 2021

Life in the pandemic XXVII Explaining stuff is hard…..

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You might think that there are oh so many things that need explaining. We still don’t really know where the virus came from. There are lots ...
Friday, 28 May 2021

Life in the pandemic XXVI Words and the “death” of postmodernism

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I have led a fairly sheltered intellectual and academic existence, just one of many advantages working on the science side of a modern Unive...
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 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 ...