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As a kid, I enjoyed going on camps in the lake district. Some of these were led by Michael Wenham, so it’s really sad to see him write in the Independent about assisted dying. Michael’s contracted Motor Neurone Disease – a terminal condition, but he doesn’t want to see amendments passed to the Coroners and [...]

I preached this at St C’s lunchtime service, two Wednesdays ago. The readings were Romans 1:16-25 and James 3:13-4:3 Let me read you a story… Six blind men encounter an elephant – although how they knew that it was an elephant. The first touches its trunk and says that an elephant is like a palm [...]

Everything finite has a cause. Nothing finite can cause itself. A causal chain cannot be of infinite length. Therefore, an infinite, uncaused ‘first cause’ must exist. So said Thomas Aquinas. Spending my usual Tuesday lunchtime in the local primary school’s playground, I felt too sluggish for sport, so sat down on a grassy bank and [...]

Here’s an innovative way to make people slow down. Source: Daily Mail

Simon Singh, one of my favourite writers, has got himself in a sticky situation with some chiropractors. The British Chiropractic Association is suing him for libel, after he wrote that it “happily promotes bogus treatments”. Sensible people would have preferred that the BCA, which believes that virtually all ailments can be cured by hitting your [...]

Today, our Covies (Y7+) group schedule pointed us at Genesis 35:1-15. We’re just finishing a series on Jacob, the father of Joseph and his amazing infamous coat. In today’s passage, Jacob took some time out to build an altar, spend some time with God and reflect on where he’s going. So, what was the youth [...]

The BNP have been reported saying some extremely nasty things, the very least inflammatory example being “Wogs go home”. How stupid is this? Racism aside, if we sent people back to their ancestral homes, we’d get nearly 20 million Australians repatriated back over to Britain. Population chaos! I think I’d rather things stayed as they [...]