by Maggy Whitehouse | Nov 6, 2019 | Spirit
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 Old Testament, God’s fond of mass genocide (Noah’s...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Nov 4, 2019 | Spirit
“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 thing that will pull us through any emergency” —Robert...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 8, 2019 | Spirit
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 came it was generally several days old – it took a full week to let...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 2, 2019 | Spirit
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 drinks. It’s probably the embarrassment of the company he keeps. Maybe...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 1, 2019 | Spirit
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 UK means ‘smoking a cigarette,’ but from my mother’s reaction it could easily have been the...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 1, 2019 | Spirit
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 a judgemental God and horrible happenings. But the Bible is the written document of an...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 1, 2019 | Spirit
“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 thing that will pull us through any...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 1, 2019 | Spirit
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 not just right-wing America using Christianity as a justification for...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 18, 2018 | Spirit
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by Maggy Whitehouse | Jun 29, 2018 | Spirit
Question: Have you ever wondered why God stopped speaking to us 2000 years ago? Answer: (to be accurate, it’s more of a Jewish ‘answer a question with a question’ kind of thing) What makes you think that God has stopped speaking to us? The only...
