I’ve been thinking over some stuff recently, and I wrote this which I’ve posted on the Cardiff CU message board: How dare we turn Christianity into the respectable, sanitized and insipid parody of the radical teachings of Jesus Christ that we so often live today? Christianity shouldn’t be something nice and polite and middle class. […]
I’ve just finished a history essay on “how do medieval attitudes to time and space differ from modern ones?” It’s been very interesting to research and write, to be honest. In particular, I’ve enjoyed Allan Chapman’s book Gods in the Sky, which is about the history of astronomy, and in particular the impact of religion […]
Good Friday – what’s it mean? Today’s the day when we remember that momentous event, when Jesus Christ died on a cross to take the sins of the world. I’ve seen some debates on places like Ship of Fools, and in the wake of Steve Chalke’s controversial comments, about what did Jesus’ death (and resurrection) […]
On Monday, I heard a very interesting programme on Radio 4 about the cultural clash between Christian and secular America. It covered such things as the school in America that has introduced Intelligent Design into its curriculum, home schooling and a new Christian University. You can hear it online at by going here. It’s particularly […]
Yesterday I was off at the Welsh national Debating competition at the University of Glamorgan, which was good fun. My partner was Dai Suke, who I’ll say a bit more about later. The motions we debated were: This house believes that the state should stop binge-drinking This house believes Iran should be next This house […]
From talking through the idea I have for a society with other Christians in particular, I think that I might have given some people the wrong impression, and some of those I’ve talked to have tried to measure it up by a standard that isn’t really relevant. It isn’t intended to be a Christian society […]
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 […]
According to the Smart Select Christian denomination selector, the denomination I am most in agreement with is Reformed Baptist, which I found simulateously quite interesting and utterly pointless. Interestingly, Roman Catholicism is down in number 20 just below Jehovah’s Witnessism and just above Mormonism – rather interesting company!