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 [...]
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 [...]
A Christian Apologia
It has come to the point where I want to apologise for being a Christian; where I feel embarrassed to be a minister in a sea of prejudiced, inaccurate and archaeic law-quoting hypocrites. It’s [...]