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Bread and circuses
At the bottom end of the socio-economic scale, what is happening in Britain today is what my generation thought would never happen. We had the welfare state. Anyway we were too civilised to allow it. How wrong we were. Starvation, … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Ethics, Inequality, Politics
Tagged Bread and circuses, British economic policy, Government
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The definition of marriage
I was caught out. On Thursday I was giving a talk on homosexuality to a church deanery readers’ group. I expected differences of opinion, but the big sticking-point was not what I expected. Nobody argued that intimate same-sex partnerships were … Continue reading
Does the Church still need parishes?
For churchgoers, yet another fascinating YouGov survey by Linda Woodhead for the Westminster Faith Debates. This one is about the views of Anglican clergy. Anthony Woollard comments here. In this post I focus on the finding that 83% want to … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, Religion
Tagged Leslie Paul Report, Parish system, Parishes, Westminster Faith Debates
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Wealth, generosity and the labourers in the vineyard
This post is based on Jesus’ parable of the labourers in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16), as I am preaching on it on Sunday. If you think it reads like a sermon, that’s because it is one. It draws on a … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Economics, Ethics, God, Inequality, Jesus, Work
Tagged Labourers in the vineyard
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Old age: what next?
My wife Marguerite retired a few weeks ago. She was looking forward to it, but just as it happened we had a succession of funerals to attend. It was as though we were given a reminder: with retirement, death approaches. … Continue reading
Downs syndrome abortion
Richard Dawkins has achieved another piece of self-publicity. A woman said she would face a real ethical dilemma if she became pregnant with a baby with Down’s syndrome. He replied ‘Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Science, Technology
Tagged abortion, Downs syndrome, Richard Dawkins
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Humanity and nature: who is in control?
In a recent post I mentioned the fact that the study of anthropology began with nineteenth century atheists who struggled to understand why our hunter-gatherer ancestors all over the world made the same crazy mistake of imagining the existence of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, God, Religion
Tagged anthropology, God, Hunter-gatherers, values
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