So we come once again to that annual festival of the ‘celebration of nothing’, otherwise known as New Year, an artificial date with no meaning (it is not even midwinter). As we do so I am reminded once again of Aldous Huxley the writer of “Brave New World” a story of a futuristic, totalitarian and … Continue reading A Brave New World of Nothing
The More the Lights the More Darkness Deepens
While driving through the suburbs of our cities in the weeks leading up to Christmas one cannot but help notice the relatively recent but increasing phenomenon of the decorating of houses with lights. These are often highly ornate, creative (and expensive) displays, such that they become tourist attractions creating traffic jams in narrow suburban streets … Continue reading The More the Lights the More Darkness Deepens
Have a Very ‘Peaceful’ Christmas
Well it’s Christmas, as you may have noticed. I could use the opportunity here for a tirade against all the materialism, consumerism and shopping insanity I suppose. Perhaps not however, for I believe that the battle against the ‘Babylonian Captivity’ of Christmas is probably largely lost. For Christmas is well and truly captured by ‘Babylon’, … Continue reading Have a Very ‘Peaceful’ Christmas
Unbounded Church-Teaching ‘Babies and Bathwater’
Unbounded Church is an idea, the idea that the church needs to be set free from the rigid, cumbersome and change-averse ‘Christendom’ influenced forms and structures in order to be - ‘A church as we haven’t known it for a society as we haven’t known it' This is an idea based on the belief … Continue reading Unbounded Church-Teaching ‘Babies and Bathwater’
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