There has been some recent outrage amongst certain Bloggers and commentators at the information that Peter Thatchel and Richard Darwkins (or Peter thatcher and Richard Darwin as my spell checker tried to convince me) are doing a couple of documentaries on the Pope and Faith schools respectively. The reason for their outrage? well it is because they know that Thatchel and… [Read more…]
June 4, 2010
There are many comments that could be said about Kelvin MacKenzie on question time but I shall choose to stick to my area of best knowledge and just mention a few other the interesting comments he made about christianity on BBC Question Time tonight. Firstly Kelvin came out with the interesting statement that if there… [Read more…]
June 2, 2010
I have been a long time admirer of Jim Wallace, and Sojourner magazine, for a long time now. For those of you who are unfamiliar with them they are basically a group that seeks to promote an alternative to the religious right framework within the U.S. They want to promote the goals of social justice amongst Christians,… [Read more…]
May 26, 2010
The Christian perception of God (generally, not universally) is one that is all powerful, and creator and sustainer of the whole universe. there are also many verses that discuss that all things belong to God, we don’t actually own them we are only left in charge of them. After all in genesis Adam and Eve are… [Read more…]
May 14, 2010
I was shared this link by Hugo Anson who tweeted this, EA sight says this is about prayer. Campolo actually talking about Christians only answering our own questions?! it’s quiet interesting what he says about “theology in the age of wave theory” and about the integration of the secular academic world and Christian faith. (I can’t seam to… [Read more…]
May 1, 2010
Something I’ve been wondering about recently is over the question of extremist views and weather we should allow people with them to be in government. Certain statements made over the last few weeks have spurred these thoughts on with the statements from certain prominent Tories over gay people, immigration and comments from the BNP in… [Read more…]
April 8, 2010
The statement will no doubt be blogged by someone at some point from each of the parties, after all their are Christians within pretty much every party (though if there is a secularist party perhaps not!) It is also interesting with the recent events today of Cameron declaring a couple of statements that might well appear to some Christians… [Read more…]
April 6, 2010
I have deliberately taken my time before posting my thoughts about Chris Grayling’s comments for a variety of reasons. Firstly I didn’t really know what he said, All I had heard was from Labour/Lib Dem (often LGBT campaigners) who quiet frankly there was a significant risk that they would be overstating of exaggerating what was said. Secondly… [Read more…]
March 30, 2010
There has been a comment on the Liberal Democrat Christian Forum group on ACT for some time that asks Do Christians make good Liberal Democrats? Do faith and politics mix or sit together ? Being a Christian and a member of the Lib Dems I want to suggest that in Both cases this is true… [Read more…]
March 26, 2010
There was recently a television appearance by the BNP on a Christian TV channel that is broadcaster near me. It was a debate between the BNP and the Christian Party which looked at the claim that the BNP represent Christians. There are many groups that have addressed this issue as a whole and so I have decided to focus… [Read more…]
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