Eschatology

Insect Armageddon: an Extinction Level Event

February 13, 2019
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The Bible is full of insects and bugs: there are ants (Prov 6:6), bees (Jdg 14:8), fleas (1Sam 24:14), flies (Ex 8:24), gnats (8:16), grasshoppers (Isa 40:22), hornets (Deut 7:20), locusts (Ps 78:46), moths (Job 13:28) and spiders (Isa 59:5).…

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Four-day week: mandatory indolence or an interfaith ‘sacred weekend’?

October 23, 2018
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When Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell mooted imposing a four-day week on the British economy (that is, a four-day working week; Labour has no plans to re-calibrate or 'modernise' the solar…

What kind of person sets a dog on fire?

September 3, 2018
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Bruce is a dog; a bull-lurcher from Little Orton near Carlisle. He has been badly beaten with a stick with nails sticking out of it, his skull fractured, his jaw…

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Bishop Nick Baines derides Brexit British hopelessness

July 25, 2018
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There's a lot of anxiety about. The torch which once lit our path is being extinguished. Our institutions and communities are beset with moral problems, dilemmas and quandaries. Our politics…

Soubry: “Since the referendum, the forces of darkness have taken over”

July 22, 2018
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We have become used to the notion of Brexit apocalypse, as the Archbishop of Canterbury observed last year: "They foresee the Four Horsemen of the Book of Revelation (death, hunger,…

He rose again the third day according to the scriptures – Hallelujah!

April 1, 2018
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Jesus suffered on the cross and died. On the third day he rose again according to the scriptures. Nothing else matters. Absolutely nothing comes anywhere near the significance of this…

Advertising Standards Authority probes billboards declaring ‘The Messiah has come’

February 20, 2018
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Billboards have been popping up around London declaring 'The Messiah has come'. According to Harry Farley in Christian Today, these have attracted a number of objections, and the Advertising Standards…

The whole world should recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital – simply because it is

December 6, 2017
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There is no greater view in the world than that of Jerusalem from the top of the Mount of Olives. There isn't a more wonderful picture of world history, of…

The two opposed expressions of Anglicanism

July 25, 2017
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There is a letter published in today's Telegraph signed by 23 conservative (/traditionalists/orthodox) Anglicans concerning the tensions in the Church over England (and wider Anglicanism) over same-sex marriage and other…

You will hear of wars, assassinations and terrorist atrocities… Joy to the world

December 20, 2016
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Christmas carnage in Berlin as Islamic State manage to get someone to plough a 27-ton HGV into a market, killing 12 and injuring 50. Weeping and wailing; mulled wine all…

The Spectator brands Justin Welby “liberal left” – for seeking Islamist understanding

October 5, 2016
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Spectator columnist and associate editor Rod Liddle sometimes sounds like he's channeling the EDL, or at least supping with Ukip, but he is, in fact, a fully paid-up member of…

Thy Kingdom Come: “prayer must always be the first action of evangelism and witness”

September 14, 2016
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When the archbishops of Canterbury and York inaugurated a week of prayer last year under the banner 'Thy Kingdom Come', they could have had no idea that the Holy Spirit…

Easter Day: He is risen! Hallelujah!

March 27, 2016
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He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is…

Holy Saturday: marginalisation, persecution, martyrdom

March 26, 2016
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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus…

Palm Sunday: the Kingdom of God and a new social order

March 20, 2016
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The Kingdom of God was heralded by the Messiah riding a donkey. By reason and provocation, He urged anyone who would fully accept that Kingdom to enter into its…

The Kingdom of God is within you, but it is also a future promise

March 8, 2016
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Where is the Kingdom of God? Does it matter? How can it be both within you and yet still to come? Or has it already come? And if it…

Does God still raise up prophets?

January 31, 2016
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Prophecy is the most frequently-mentioned charism in the whole Pauline corpus: the role of the prophets is preeminent (eg 1Thess 5:20; 1Cor 11:4f; Rom 12:6; Eph 2:20; 1Tim 1:18).…

Jihadi John has gone to meet Mohammed

November 13, 2015
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It is reported by the Pentagon that there is a "high degree of certainty" that the Islamic State serial beheader Mohammed Emwazi – aka Jihadi John – has been…

Does God suffer?

September 21, 2015
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There's an awful lot of suffering and badness around. Nasty people do nasty things, and wicked people do worse. There are floods, droughts and earthquakes, which are no-one's fault;…

The apocalypse of Islam and the signs of the times

August 26, 2015
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The Temple of Baalshamin predated Mohammed by six centuries. It was a cultural jewel in the Syrian desert, revealing to the world a glimpse of the pre-Islamic religions of…