Time Magazine’s Person of the Year is…”You.” This is an odder choice than “The American Soldier,” a couple years back, which induced me to create my own LYTrules.com person of the year.

Turns out “You” basically refers to bloggers, something Time is only just now starting to understand – they have profiles on 15 different photobloggers, [...]

The Search for Truth

“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.” So wrote the famous essayist Francis Bacon some four centuries ago. You can find the background to this in St John’s Gospel, chapter 18, verses 33 to 39. Describing the purpose of his life John [...]

Christmas or Winterval

I’ve a vague feeling that it was Birmingham City Council that planned recently to substitute for ‘Christmas’ the word ‘Winterval’. The idea struck most people as grotesque but the intention behind it was to ensure that the large non-Christian section of Brummies would not be offended by having Christianity rammed down their [...]

*The Church and Sex*

From the days of the New Testament to the present time the Church has never sorted out what it thinks it ought to believe about human sexuality and behaviour. When we look to the Jewish scriptures (our Old Testament) we find things that would surprise many Christians. There is virtually [...]

Editorial note – though the specifics of this piece are aimed locally, the bulk of it seems relevant to all.

What IS Christianity?

Christians are as different from each other as are for instance the British or the Americans. Our thoughts, feelings and beliefs vary widely. Yet many of us are content to make judgments [...]

Liberalism

For some people liberalism has nothing to be said for it This seems to be true in matters of both religion and politics. I often wonder why this should be so because we virtually all of us claim to value freedom, which is exactly what liberalism is about – being liberated.
I have no [...]

Rainbow People

One of the things that most of us have learned during my lifetime is that the people of our world come in all shapes and sizes, all colours and from hundreds of different cultures with all sorts of ideas and experiences. The Church of England is a small but influential part of the [...]

A terrifying religion

On May 5th I watched. a fascinating but highly dusturbing TV programme – God’s Next Army.
It was about an American “academic” institution called Patrick Henry College. It was founded with a clearly stated purpose: to become a university, the members of which would all be Bible-believing evangelical Christians, who would all share [...]

Editorial note: While I like his general point here, my grandfather has obviously never been the victim of identity theft, as I have.

The Truth will make you free

The great majority of the printing I do via my computer is done on the back of already once used paper. Often this will be statements of [...]