God the Blogger
25 Jul 2008 8:41pm GMT While commenting on TC Robinson’s Open Letter to an Open Theist, I realised that I had found an interesting analogy which might help to explain some of the complex issues of free will and predestination. Or maybe the whole thing is just far too simplistic. It is an old analogy to compare the relationship between God [...]
How can I know that God is telling me something?
25 Jul 2008 5:01pm GMT In a post Using Reason to Judge Revelation Henry Neufeld asks an interesting question: The problem is that if God reveals something to you that you cannot know in any other way, by what means do you determine that it is true? The following is the main part of a comment I made on that post, addressed [...]
Nobody expects the Anglican Inquisition …
25 Jul 2008 11:22am GMT … that is, except for Ruth Gledhill. In a blog post which starts with The Anglican Communion is on the rack and the torture continues she writes that the Anglican bishops meeting at the Lambeth Conference are planning to set up a new Faith and Order Commission. This sounds extraordinarily like the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the [...]
Lambeth: the Secret Plan
24 Jul 2008 11:31am GMT Dave Walker has clearly been working hard as cartoonist in residence at the Lambeth conference. In this cartoon (part of his Lambeth series) he seems to have uncovered and portrayed Archbishop Rowan’s secret strategy for getting the bishops to talk to one another. UPDATE: Ruth Gledhill confirms the story with real pictures of bishops queuing, not [...]
Who was St Stephen the Great?
23 Jul 2008 9:11pm GMT The story of how the SPCK bookshops were taken over by St Stephen the Great Charitable Trust, recently in the news, prompts me to this purely historical study of who this St Stephen the Great might be. I remembered only one thing, that he is not the biblical Stephen, the first Christian martyr. I thought [...]