Bishop of Leeds to retire
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The Rt Revd Nick Baines, Bishop of Leeds, has announced that he will retire
on 30 November 2024. Further details are on the Leeds diocesan website:
Bisho...
Our Responses to the Problem of Evil
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I was recently in a conversation about the problem of evil and shared some
of the ideas from Karen Kilby's article "Evil and the Limits of Theology."
I r...
Prelude to a Parable
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The gospel reading for the 4th Sunday of Lent (year C) is Luke 15:1-3,
11-32.
If you are looking for a translation and commentary on Luke 15:1-10, click
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House of David (2025) s1e06
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This post is part of a series looking at Amazon Prime's show *House of
David* (2025). I'm trying to post them as soon as possible after the show
airs, so...
Are you suffering because you sinned?
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Are you suffering because you sinned?
It's possible - you may be in jail because you were drunk driving, or have
a broken leg because you tripped ove...
Beware the Gospel of Silence
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This is an anxious time to be a preacher in the United States.
Over the past few weeks, I have been cautioned from various quarters from
being too "polit...
IS THERE ANY HOPE?
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IS THERE ANY HOPE?
The short answer is “Yes.” But hope is hidden from the world, because in
really hard times, times of war, despair and chaos, people...
The World’s Fear Of The Truth-Telling Soul
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God's food for thought.
Don't be surprised when they hate you for speaking God's truth.
The post The World’s Fear Of The Truth-Telling Soul appeared firs...
Doing the dishes so we can spread the Gospel
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We don't spend enough time making the main thing the main thing at General
Convention. But for 90 minutes early one morning, deputies and bishops
gathered ...
God, Grace, and Horses
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To say the past almost two years have been trying is an understatement. We
were living life, and then...
It all stopped. During the pandemic, so much slo...
Bernd Wallet – Archbishop of Utrecht
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After delays because of Covid, Bernd Wallet was finally ordained bishop and
installed as Archbishop of Utrecht in the Old Catholic Church.
Happy Christmas
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Many thanks to all of you who have written inquiring about the silence on
this blog. It seems that after two volumes on silence I have written myself
into ...
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I was searching google images to find the type of steam tractor that one
might find in 1901 for a familial research project and I came across this :
from t...
On Being 80
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oh yes. A new thing. My liver enzymes are up. The result of methotrexate
for 20 years, and leflunomide combined with it, has a high rate leading to
toxic l...