One idea people have about religion is that it means hanging your brain up at the door, and just accepting a certain set of dogmas unquestioningly. Even some Christians view questions with suspicion as something dangerous and insubordinate. On a recent discussion on Ship of Fools, one person argued that: making this concept of supernatural […]
Hurricane Katrina. What can be said that isn’t woefully inadequate? The death and destruction is mind-boggling, and for it to happen in America is a painful reminder of the frailty of our illusions of invulnerability. So much pain and suffering. How can you respond to something like that? How could you comprehend its enormity and […]
Unfortunately, my article for Gair Rhydd on whether Britain should have a monarchy was torpedoed somewhat by the news that Prince Charles and Camilla are going to marry, which was announced on Thursday just around the time of the deadlines for the paper, though I didn’t hear about it until later and since I’ve lost […]
Someone very kindly made some comments on my idea for a new student society, so I’m going to discuss some of the points that they raised. I don’t know who they are – I initially thought they were called Robert Frost before realising that was the name of the writer of the poem he quoted […]
I’ll soon be off back to Cardiff. It’s been nice being at home, enjoying the company of my family and having my mum’s home cooking, not having to do all my own chores and so on. It’ll be quite nice to go back, though, and see my friends again. I’m also looking forward to writing […]
Gah! I’m not enjoying working on my English essay, unfortunately. I enjoy studying literature, and I found the book I’m writing on, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, to be quite moving and interesting, but the essay questions we’ve been set are just so dull. It isn’t helped that in a 1600 word essay there isn’t much […]