I play in a Salvation Army band, and I have on and off for sixty years. At band rehearsal this week we warmed up with Lois Bourgeois’s 16th century hymn tune known as “Old Hundredth”. Nowadays churchgoers sing the doxology “Praise God from whom all blessings flow” to Old Hundredth but mostly associate it with […]
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Dirty, or just stained? Theology in a coffee cup.
Swiss Chalet is a well known Canadian restaurant chain specialising in spit-roasted chicken. Their meals are modestly priced and somewhat unimaginative — good, basic, wholesome fare. Not the place to impress an important client, but ideal for Mother’s Day. MacDonalds for grown-ups, they used to call it. Let me say that I generally enjoy lunch […]
Faint Hope?
Image via Wikipedia Easter — Sunday, 4 April 2010. I went to church this morning and found myself wondering whether I believed what I was singing and saying. What does Easter really mean to me, and does it matter? As I have got older so I have thought rather less about life after death and […]
The Road to Hell?
Almost a month since my last post. Obviously, blogging every day, or even every week, wasn’t one of my resolutions at the New Year. Not that I would have kept it anyway, for I have been very busy with my work for The Salvation Army. Two weeks ago the island of Haiti suffered the latest […]
Doing the Rite Thing?
Anglican Communion News Service: Joint Statement by The Archbishop of Westminster and The Archbishop of Canterbury. Vatican makes it easier for Anglicans to convert; creates new provision within Catholic Church. When the disciples were enjoined to be fishers of men, was the body of water specified? It must have been, for Cardinal Walter Kasper of […]
Conservative Bible Project – Conservapedia
Conservative Bible Project – Conservapedia. I have discovered, after a visit to Conservapedia.com’s Bible project, that a chunk of the Church in the Benighted States seems to think that the Christian virtues of inclusiveness, charity and forgiveness that radiate from the New Testament I read may be no more than mistranslations, induced by liberal bias, […]