Author Archives
Vlogger and bibliophile based in London and the South of France.
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The head coverings worn by traditional Roman Catholic women and their obvious similarity to the hijab.
The Roman Catholic custom of women covering their heads, usually with a lace mantilla (called in America a ‘chapel veil’) was obligatory under the 1917 Code of Canon Law (which was superseded by the 1983 Code). The practice goes back… Read More ›
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Perfectly put.
A Muslim just texted me: “Being gay is just a test on this trip.”
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And now for something completely different: Interview with an Anglo-Saxon in Old English
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Michael Ruse (atheist philosopher of biology) trashing Richard Dawkins on his “who created God?” nonsense.
‘Thus, like a first-year undergraduate, he can happily go around asking loudly, “What caused God?” as though he had made some momentous philosophical discovery.’
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The Greek syntax of John 1 demonstrates that Jesus was not God. Dr William Barclay: “Jesus was not identical with God.”
William Barclay (died 1978 in Glasgow, Scotland) was a Scottish author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister, and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow. He wrote a popular set of Bible commentaries on… Read More ›
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Atheism captured in eight seconds.
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A brief review of Tom Wright’s new translation of the New Testament
Tom Wright, a top British biblical scholar, has just published a new translation of the New Testament. I wasn’t going to buy it at first but reading bits of it impressed me so much by its readability and freshness that… Read More ›
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IMHO
From my experience I draw the (obvious) conclusion: Islam is no place for gay people. They are called ‘animals’; they are insulted, maligned and degraded. They will not be protected from abuse. Muslims in the main simply don’t want to… Read More ›
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The Qur’an incorporates the social order into the religious. Buddhism and Christianity, the other universal and missionary religions, do not embrace society.
We have seen that the Qur’an incorporates the social order into the religious. This is, on the one hand, a recovery, it having been so included in all early – ‘whole’, tribal and ethnic – cultures. The inclusion is likewise… Read More ›
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When polygamy is justified
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Advice for feminists