Tag: Christianity

• The Non-Tribal Religion of the Future?

  I stopped being a Christian minister forty years ago, and don’t now attend any church, but I’d gladly have listened to the late Bishop John Shelby Spong. And if I were to have my time over again, this is along the lines of what I’d want to say, not that it might be welcomed. Bishop […]

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  7th Nov 2022

  Buddhism, Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Old Testament, Philosophy, Religion

  Bishop Spong, Buddhism, Christianity, Einstein, Faith, God, Hope, Humanity, Religion, Tribalism

• Unconditional Love (ii)

  I wrote in a previous post that, for me, the symbolic image of Jesus with his arms outstretched on the cross, is a movingly powerful symbol of ‘unconditional love’, which I see as the ‘beating heart’ of Christianity, and its greatest gift to the world. I also noted that my own journey towards this persuasion […]

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  7th Sep 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion

  Abelard, Christianity, Crucifixion, Divine, Hellfire, Jesus, John Powell, Liberation, Love, vision

• Unconditional Love (i)

  There was a time when I was a conservative evangelical minister, fervently believing in the complete historicity and literal factuality of the Gospels, and accepting therefore the historical, traditional, orthodox, Christian interpretation of them. I don’t regret that, because it means that I know about this way of seeing things – I’ve been there – […]

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  5th Sep 2022

  Buddhism, Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Archetypes, Buddhism, Christianity, Gospels, Jesus, John Powell, Literalism, Myth, Salvador Dali, Unconditional Love

• “God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth” ..

  I’m continuing to ask myself, what is Christianity? A previous post saw it as being like the typical supermarket set of shelves, with many different options on offer. Let’s narrow things down, however, to a traditional, historical, generic outline of what Christianity has said it’s about. Let’s consider the 4th century CE Apostles’ Creed, which […]

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  10th Aug 2022

  Buddhism, Christianity, Consciousness, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Philosophy, Religion

  Aposles' Creed, Buddhist, Christianity, God, Heaven and Hell, Holocaust, Mind, Misogyny, Patriarchy, Spirit

• What is Christianity?

  It’s now 40 years since I stopped being a Christian minister. Am I now a Christian? This is where I have to put on a ‘philosophy’ hat, and ask the follow-up question. What does ‘being a Christian’ mean? Christianity, after all, is by no means a homogeneous entity. There are Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and […]

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  4th Aug 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Philosophy, Religion

  Apostates, Christianity, Constantine, Creeds & Confessions, God, Heretics, Israel, Jesus, Pagans, Roman Empire

• Life after Death?

  While working last night on my present series of posts, this one made a sudden, unexpected arrival, and wrote itself in short order, and so I share it with you … Writing, as I’ve been doing, about my view of God as being more of a transcendental process than a locatable person, I’ve been reminding […]

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  10th Jan 2022

  Buddhism, Christianity, Consciousness, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  After-life, Assisted dying, Christianity, Death, Dementia, Ground of Being, Khalil Gibran, Self-awarness

• My Religious Paradigm (1) Is there a God?

  At the beginning of this new year, and following on from my previous posts, I’m asking myself, having once been a preacher, what my current religious paradigm is. What do I think and feel I can reasonably and credibly believe? When people say, “there is a God”, or “there isn’t a God”, it’s clear to […]

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  3rd Jan 2022

  Buddhism, Literature, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Brahma, Christianity, God, Isaac Newton, Religion, Thomas Aquinas

• Science and Religion (ii)

  Following on from the previous post, let’s note that some people like to keep science and religion in separate boxes, even though both address the origin and nature of ‘ultimate reality’. The totality of what is ultimately real, for religion must include the material (hence the ‘creation’ stories in Genesis), and for science must include […]

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  29th Dec 2021

  New Testament, Old Testament, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Christianity, Church, paradigms, Religion, Science, Secularism