How to Hang on a Cross…
One of the magical things about studying Kabbalah is in learning how to read the Bible on four different levels. Literally, it’s a bit of a nightmare of slashing and burning and judgement but [...]
Patterns of the Universe.
Picture of Gary from Wikipedia. [This blog was written on the day that chef Gary Rhodes died. Sir Jonathan Miller died later on the same day at the age of 84 and Sir Clive [...]
The World, the Flesh and the Devil.
Medieval painting of the Virgin Mary thumping the devil. The Prophets in the Bible are generally ignored nowadays. It’s probably because they are concerned with social, institutional, national, or corporate evil and our participation in it. [...]
Our Own Worst Enemies?
Picture by the Four Wheeled Legend. I got a bad review for a corporate comedy gig I did. And I mean a really bad, one-star review. Fair enough. These things happen. The lady was [...]
A Date With God
Detail: Rubens and his wife Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower (Peter Paul Rubens) Let’s face it, God has had some very bad PR. Interpretations of the Holy Books haven’t helped. According to the [...]
Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdom of Hell.
“People often asked Dr. [Carl] Jung, ‘Will we make it?’ referring to the cataclysm of our time. He always replied, “If enough people will do their inner work.” This soul work is the one [...]
Children of a Greater God.
Until about a hundred years ago, we were all pretty comfortable with a small, exclusive, tribal God. We lived in villages, towns and cities without a wider view of the world and when news [...]
The Lazy Atheist.
When you’re a vicar, you get used to the feeling that every time you walk into a room an elephant walks in with you. I’m used to mine now, he’s called Gordon and he [...]
The Collar of Anubis
The first time my mother met my bishop, he was wearing his pyjamas and having a fag in the garden. I should emphasise here for my American friends that ‘having a fag’ in the [...]
Abram and the Land
One of my jobs as a minister and a prosperity teacher is to make sense of that rather strange book, the Bible. At first glance it (particularly the Old Testament) is a minefield of [...]