Religious Observation
Last week, on Channel 4’s 4thought.tv, the question has been asked, “Could your God be a woman?” I find it hard to believe that, in the 21st Century, facing the imminent collapse of ecosystems and social systems alike, we are wasting time on such inane matters. To start with, the question is fatuous. If I [...]
An email landed in my inbox today from Jesus Saves. Just for a moment I thought this might be from that Brazilian guy that keeps sending out spurious emails about making a fortune on the internet, but then I remembered he has a different surname. It also reminded me of something I saw in an [...]
“Easter is late this year,” you will hear people say. Ask them why, however, and most will not be able to tell you. Even the majority of pious churchgoers, to say nothing of certain members of the clergy, can be pretty hazy about the reasons for Easter being a moveable feast. Yet we don’t have [...]
Continue reading about Easter – late, and older than you think
Quietly and without prior warning, Professor Brian Cox, pop-star presenter with a Physics PhD and a smile more enigmatic than Mona Lisa’s, has become a bit of a heart throb lately. I say this with some conviction, having witnessed Sally’s reaction to his aptly named latest TV series, The Wonders of the Universe, recently shown [...]
21st December 2010 Short days and tall tales The winter solstice is upon us once again, accompanied by the bonus of a total lunar eclipse and a full moon tonight (neither of which will be visible to anyone around here due to the opaque snowy skies). Shame really, because this is the first total lunar [...]
No doubt my Mum will despair of me, but I am struggling with questions of religion again, as I have done since I was a teenager. Mum is a Catholic and brought me up in that faith, but the best thing she ever did for me was to listen to me when I started asking [...]