Category Archives: What I’m Reading

One of the greatest journalists of the last generation, the late Bernard Levin, described how, when he was a small boy, a great celebrity came to visit his school. The headmaster, thinking perhaps to impress, called the young Levin to … Continue reading →

After replacing the fan, the power unit and purchasing a new hard drive my computer is operative again.

You really would not believe the amount of time that I have wasted on this site over the last few weeks.

This is horrible. Although they have long been heading in this direction, the Disney denomination of Pooh followers has finally gone apostate. It seems to me that anyone who has been engaged in the quest for the historical Pooh would … Continue reading →

OK, I have been tagged, so here goes: 1. Seven things to do before I die 2. Seven things I cannot do 3. Seven things that attract me to my spouse 4. Seven things I say most often 5. Seven … Continue reading →

Jeff has some helpful thoughts here. I find the analogy of the Church as a body to be an exceedingly fruitful one, particularly in this area. Whilst I lay no claim for a biblical basis for the following sub-analogies, I … Continue reading →

…it is the essence of the priesthood to help people draw near to God. Yes, you get to go into God’s house yourself as a priest. The High Priest even gets to go into the Most Holy Place where Yahweh … Continue reading →

Willow Creek and a number of other megachurches are cancelling their Christmas Day services (Tim Bayly also reports on this). This is just another instance of the idolatry of the natural family in action. Christ came in order to form … Continue reading →

Human beings are religious animals. It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion. You can see this in the positivist scientists of the 19th century. They insisted that they were … Continue reading →