Parousia

Flood, fire, famine and pestilence: the end is nigh (maybe)

Wildfires blaze across the western states: California and Oregon burn day and night. Death Valley hit a blistering 54.4°C, which might be the highest recorded ambient temperature on Earth. Across Germany and Belgium, floods are devastating states and lives: thousands…

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…

Remembrance Day: there’s a long, long trail a-winding..

November 13, 2016
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A long trail of prophets and dark prophecies precedes the apocalypse. When you're dead, you don't care. When you're partly living with no eyes, one leg and half a mind,…

May we no longer say Jehovah's Witnesses are not real Christians?

April 18, 2016
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Dr Shiraz Maher is a lecturer at King's College London and a Senior Fellow of The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR). His list…

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).…

ISIS destroys the the ancient Monastery of Mar Elian

August 22, 2015
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"The Monastery of St. Elian was a Christian monastery near the town of Al-Qaryatayn in the Homs Governorate," says Wikipedia. "Was"? Yes, the tense is accurate. It had stood…

Was St Paul wrong about the timing of the Second Coming?

August 20, 2015
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If Jesus, being fully and infallibly God, was not wrong about the time of his Second Coming, what about St Paul, being fully and fallibly man? The whole thrust…

Was Jesus wrong about the timing of his Second Coming?

August 19, 2015
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The imminence of the long-prophesied kingdom of God and the end of time has occupied Christians and Jews more than any other subject of theological conjecture. Certainly, at the…

Charles – Defender of the persecuted Faith

December 10, 2014
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"God brings him here," said Maijida Nissan, 64, speaking about the visit of the Prince of Wales to the Chaldean Church in England gathered in Acton yesterday, many of…

Christian power lists: fame, popularity, judgement and false humility

December 8, 2014
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Nominations have now closed in the quest to discover the 'Top 100 UK Christians' for 2014. Hundreds have been nominated - some with sarcastic citations (Sir Cliff Richard -…

Welby: we wrestle not against ISIL, but against Jihadi principalities and powers

September 27, 2014
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We are, once again, a nation at war. And, rather like World War I, it won't be over by Christmas. The Prime Minister has identified our target: "We should be…

Why can bishops organise to condemn foodbanks but not genocide?

August 12, 2014
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After the Holocaust, the whole of civilisation united behind two simple words: "Never Again". If the free world is not prepared to eradicate the Islamist evil spreading over the…