Where are we headed?

For those of us who are at times as stupid as I know I can be it may be a hazardous experience to join a motorway. The crucial thing of course is to be sure that when you join you will be traveling in the right direction. In some regions [...]

Living on Credit

The current international financial chaos is a classic example of a disaster that’s been just waiting to happen.

Meanwhile most of us, if we are at all interested, seem to be busy blaming the government, the banks or the very rich for the present state of affairs. The truth however is that it [...]

Antidisestablishmentarianism

There are many people, including many keen Church members, who want to see the Church of England’s link with the State abolished. They want disestablishment. At one time I was of this opinion myself. In this day and age, it is said, there should be no place for an established Church. Hardly [...]

In Defence of Deference

Our Bible is full of instances where deference is praised. “Let each consider others better than themselves”.. “Fear God; honour the king.” “Blessed are the meek”. Humility is one of the great and specifically Christian virtues.

To go along with this does not mean that we ought to return to [...]

The Lambeth Conference

It was widely expected that the Lambeth Conference of the bishops of the world-wide Anglican Communion would be a disaster and mark the final splitting up of this brotherhood of Churches. The fact that over 200 of the bishops invited declined to attend because of their doctrinal disagreements with other Churches was [...]

Confrontation and Concord

In the Churches as in the secular world confrontation appears to be more highly esteemed than concord. Yet there are certainly signs that concord is still highly valued; as it should be, for concord means the uniting of heart with heart, the intention sincerely to agree together. Members of the Church [...]

What IS this Christian hope?

I ended my last piece by saying that Christians were supposed to live in hope as well as in faith and love. We hope that we are going somewhere, that we are on a journey which will in time lead us to unending joy. We, like our Jewish predecessors, [...]

(Note: My grandfather has begun adding his email to the end of his columns for readers who have questions. With a slight modification to avoid spambots, I’m posting it here too so that his Internet readers can do likewise)

What about the Holy Spirit?

According to the biblical record Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit, whom he [...]

What is a Christian?

I wrote last month that I hoped to give this month my personal answer to the big question: ‘What do we have to do to be truly Christian?’ That is to ask: what is true Christian religion, or in other words: what does a true Christian do about what he or [...]

Bit of a tease, this one…

Christianity and Religion

Christianity is a faith. Religion is what one does about one’s faith. It used to be said that the greatest enemy of Christianity was religion. That may seem ridiculous but when you consider the vast number of bad things done in the name of the [...]