Tag: Compassion

• Will Jesus Return?

  I’m content for you to think so – and for me to think not.  To me, Jesus lived and died over 2,000 years ago, a charismatic, compassionate, deeply insightful Palestinian Jew, crucified as a potential disturber of the ‘Pax Romana’. Pursuing disagreement between us about a literal ‘second coming’, I’d regard as being ‘beside the…

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  23rd Apr 2023

  Christianity, Current Affairs, Jesus of Nazareth, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Compassion, Forgiveness, Jesus, Justice, Peace, Reconciliation, Second Coming, Truth, Unconditional Love

• 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