Romans during the Decadence — Courture In my studies at the moment we are doing a course on “Sex and Gender”. The conversations have been really rather interesting as we’ve looked at something of what does it mean to consider people as “sexual beings”. One of the first “hurdles”, as it were, is the realisation of how […]
It has been hard to read the news recently without coming across the varying tragedies which have been broadcast on Facebook Live. There has been murders and suicides. And people watched. The internet has always had a place for this kind of ‘content’ – that word we use when we want to distance ourselves from […]
One question that comes up in conversation from time to time when I speak with people about the Christian faith is often phrased something like this: “Don’t the gospels contradict each other? How can you believe what they say when they can’t even agree what happened?” At a glance this question seems to offer a […]
Source I recently read a paper Tillich once presented called The Two Types of Philosophy of Religion. In it he, surprise surprise, identifies two kinds of philosophical approaches to the idea of knowing God, or more specifically ‘religious truth’. The first is the ontological way which presupposes a transcendent and permanent unity with the ultimate. […]
With Wikileaks and Snowden and more recently #Vault7 giving us a glimpse into the vast and far reaching methods and systems of governmental electronic surveillance the questions of the morality of such surveillance is a key issue for all of us who use the internet. I recently read: Nicholas Tavaglione: A dilemma for Indiscriminate Pre-emptive […]
It is common for Christians, and indeed people in general, to speak of humans as relational beings. “Christianity is not a ‘religion’, it’s a ‘relationship’”, they might say. When it comes to issues of morality they might say that it’s not so much about the act itself but the impact on the people. Advice (and […]
Why I started having cold showers This time last year I was sitting here at my computer browsing the internet in the evening. I was reading some news articles, catching up on a couple of blogs I enjoy. I was messaging a friend on social media and half listening to YouTube in the background. I was […]
I sat down and started writing, and ended up wiring about writing. See what you make of it.
A write up of a public lecture given by Dr Barbara Sattler given at St John’s College February 16th 2017.
A friend and I went took the opportunity to attend the Durham Castle Lecture about Free Speech on Wednesday. The speaker was political historian and free-speech advocate Professor Timothy Garton Ash from Oxford. It was an interesting presentation of two main halves; systems of speech in our interconnected world, and principles for speaking freely with […]
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