Ray's Blog: November 2024
Thou Shalt Not Kill
A former Chief Educaation Office recently said to me: 'We were born helpless and incontinent and we die helpless and incontinent.'
The late Caardinal Heenan reminded us that 'Thou shalt not kill but need not strive officiously to keep alive'.
Our lust to be be as gods or as God is our...
Transforming Our Prisons
It's said that USA has more people in prisons than any other country. UK has such an acute prisons crisis that it recently let out thousands early because there was no room for the newly convicted. The principles of restorative justice practised in some local societies in early...
A Christian Renaissance
The new UK Parliament is the first to have a majority of non-Christians. The incoming Trump regime in America has separated the god of profit from the God of Jesus Christ. However, an interview in the Roman Catholc weekly The Tablet (12 October) with Rupert Shortt, the ...
How The Celts Saved Britain And Can Save The World
Dan Snow's documentary How the Celts Saved Britain was re-played on prime time British TV last night. It compellingly tells the story of Saint Columba, Iona, and its Irish Mission to the English based on Lindisfarne.
However, in common with many commentators, it falls for the half truth that Celtic...
If I Was Standing To Be President
Never since I was ordained have I taken sides publicly in partisan politics. God's kingdom transcends and transforms all political parties, and I want to encourage all supporters to grow in wisdom.
However, the US election may mark a world tipping point. 'The West' (mainly Europe and North America) is being...
