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 […]
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 […]
A Life of Miracles
The Spirit and the Law
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 […]
The Mystical Ten Commandments, Part Three.
The Third Commandment is: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. The Old Testament […]
The Mystical Ten Commandments, Part Two.
The Second Commandment is: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is […]