President Trump has indicated that he wants to release classified files on UFOs, UAPs and aliens. This is being branded by some commentators at "The Great Disclosure" which will upset everything. Some have called it an "ontological earthquake" meaning our whole frame of reference as human beings will need to adjusted. If there is extraterrestrial life [...]
Social media was full of it: pictures of crowded Catholic Churches from Scotland to South Carolina. Catholics rejoicing in "churches fuller than they have ever seen them" and so forth and so on. As usual in our parish the secretary was grumbling about the endless phone calls (obviously from non parishioners else they would have read [...]
Some time ago in an article for National Catholic Reporter, a prominent Jesuit priest, said he didn't believe in transubstantiation because it was an out of date concept which was impossible for anyone to understand who hadn't studied Aristotelian metaphysics. Now "Aristotelian metaphysics" is itself a nice juicy long word and one which is easily used [...]
The photo illustrating this blog post pictures Charlie Bączyk-Bell,--a minister in the Church of England who gave an impassioned speech at the Church of England's general synod denouncing their decision not to move forward with same sex blessings. I am unable to load a link to the full speech, but if you search online you [...]
What a beautiful soul St John Bosco was! It was while I was serving as a high school chaplain that I came across St John Bosco's philosophy of child discipline. He would advise his brothers that the boys in their orphanages should be treated with gentleness and kindness because, he observed, God had planted in the [...]
I will tell you a vision I once had. I hesitate to call it a vision because it makes me sound like some sort of Marian mystic. Probably better to call it a "mental image" or a "dream image". Anyway, it came to me in that in between state when I was not sure if I [...]
Guest blogger, The Rev’d Humphrey Blytherington is retired Vicar of St Hilda’s, Little Snoring with All Saints, Great Snoring. He is a graduate of Plymouth University. He completed his studies for the ministry at Latimer Hall, Durham. He is married to Daphne and in his retirement still enjoys home brewing, model railroading and is an avid [...]
In internet Christian discussions one of the most common Protestant protests is "But where is THAT in the Bible? Huh??" To understand how to read the Bible it is worth first disposing of several different approaches to the Bible which (while not totally wrong) are faulty on their own. These are very typical ways of reading [...]
A day late, but here are some thoughts on the Conversion of St Paul. I had in mind to write a post about not only his conversion, but the conversion of the world through him. Reading his epistles how can one not be totally astounded by the genius of the man? I believe he is one [...]
Sola Scriptura is the foundation of the Evangelical Bible Christian religion. The Bible Christian says he believes only what is in the Bible and he eschews "man made traditions." However, when it comes to the Christmas story, the typical Bible Christian actually believes lots of man made traditions, and St Matthew's story of the Magi visiting [...]