Tag: Meaning

• God Problem

  A problem with ‘God’ is that it’s a three-letter word; a pattern of printer-ink dots on a piece of paper; a display of pixels against the background of a computer screen; a vibration in the air produced by vocal chords and transformed into sounds by electro-chemical processing in human brains; an idea that exists in…

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  22nd Feb 2023

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Religion

  Consciousness, Deities, Folk Tales, God, Meaning, Metaphor, Mystery, Mythology, Symbols, Theology

• The ‘Meaning’ of Christmas?

  I’ve an annual soft-spot for John Betjeman’s Christmas poem. I’m an unashamed lover, not of what Betjeman calls the “tissued fripperies”, but of the stories, though they’re not history; the carols, though their ‘theology’ seems past its ‘use-by’ date; the Old Testament quotes, though they’re dubiously ‘borrowed’ to spice up the mix; and the music…

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  23rd Dec 2022

  Christianity, Christmas, Composer, Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Betjeman, Blake, Christmas, Christmas Concerto, Corelli, Meaning, Music, Nativity, Poem, Stories

• The Search for Meaning (i)

  Does human life have a meaning? Paradoxically, perhaps, Richard Dawkins seems to suggest the only possible meaning of life is, it’s meaningless! Here’s a typical quote – “Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor…

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  14th Jun 2022

  Consciousness, Current Affairs, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Dawkins, Design, Disasters, Humanity, Life, Meaning, Purpose, Security, Suffering, Universe

• So what do I now believe in?

  As a blogger, often about ‘matters religious’, I’m prompted to ask myself, what does religion now mean for me? Its most significant meaning is no longer an institutional one. I was once the minister of a church with several hundred attenders. Having a ‘way with words’, spoken as well as written, I enjoyed the experience…

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  13th Feb 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Literature, Music, Mythology, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Science

  Consciousness, Faith, Laws of Physics, Meaning, Religion, Self, Transcendence, Web of Being