Tag: Belief

• Heart on (heretical) Sleeve

  After sharing some thoughts with a friend, I want to try to put into words what ‘religion’ means to me. It’ll make sense to some, though not perhaps to all. Joseph Campbell describes the “game of belief” that leads to a “divine seizure”, his use of the word ‘game’ (as in Wittgenstein’s philosophy) not meaning…

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  8th Oct 2022

  Buddhism, Christianity, Composer, Consciousness, Music, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion

  Bach, Belief, Buddhism, Coleridge, Compassion, Gospels, Jesus, Joseph Campbell, Kathleen Ferrier, Love, Religion, St Matthew Passion

• Confessional

  I was once a Christian minister. I’m sometimes asked if I’m still a Christian? In my usual, irritating way, I say that it depends on what’s meant by “a Christian”.  A problem for me is an insistence that a Christian is primarily someone who believes certain things. That’s a ‘checklist’ model in my way of…

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  1st Jan 2021

  Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Old Testament, Religion

  Belief, Christian, Jesus, Life, Love, Values