Here are the online writings of Samuel S. Thorp. The links below will either take you to dedicated pages for collections of writings, such as essays, or they will link through to blogs and articles shared either on this website or where they may be found elsewhere.
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- An unexpected blessing – and a sadness
- The Road Goes Ever On and On
- True
- Enhypostatic Christology, and the Ethical Implications
- Twenty-Six Gratitudes
- Glimpses
- What is the Music of the Bible?
- Poetry knows no creed
- The Amorality of Robotic AI and our Human Response
- A Prayer for Universities and Students
- Joy and… judgement?
- The Decline of the Media Bubble
- When Symbolism Flirts: the odd relationship between Christian and Pagan symbols
- The Eagle’s Vision
- Reflecting on Hobbits and Brexit
- Day 32: 2018 is ours
- #DecemberOfDiscipline: Training to be a Priest
- Free Idea: News Aggregation Site searchable by date
- Moments from a Friary
- #NobodySpeaks — apart from when they do
- Focus is a choice
- 5 things I learned from two days using spreadsheets
- ‘Individually you don’t know what you’re doing collectively’
- CODEC’s MediaLit Conference 2017
- The Complete #MediaLit17 Chronicles
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 19: Digital Destinies
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 18: Digital Vocation
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 17: Flinging Stars into Space
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 16: “Hacking Church”
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 15: Presentations — Part 2
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 14: Entertainment
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 13: Real humanity in the virtual world
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 12: Multimedia Liturgical Worship
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 11: Multimedia Liturgy
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 10: Interviewing Theory
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 9: An Evening with Jim and Kate
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 8: Presentations — Part 1
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 7: Communication and the Arts
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 6: Communicating Faith
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 5: Could AI have souls?
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 4: Tech for Comms
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 3: The Digital Revolution
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 2: Theomedia
- #MediaLit17 Chronicles 1: Introduction
- Patience and encouragement
- Michah 6:8 – A reflection
- Reality – A Poem
- “Sexuality” and the subjective/objective problem
- The moral problem with Facebook Live (Hint: It’s child porn)
- The gospels and the Gospel
- The philosophical problems of knowing ‘God’
- The Morality of Internet Surveillance – and is it too late?
- You and I are ‘relational’ people
- Why you should try Cold Showers too
- Some Thoughts on Writing
- Measurement Problems in Ancient Greece – IAS Fellows Public Lecture
- #FreeSpeech Under Attack?
- Initial Observations on the ‘Marriage and Same Sex Relationships after the Shared Conversations’ Report
- The Son of Man will come with Glory
- David and Psalm 23
- The Sun’s Favourite Moment
- Invaded by Light
- A Personal Update: Starting Ordination Training
- Remembering 9/11
- Why I am not a Victim
- Twitter Echo Chambers: a suggestion
- Encouraging A Sister-In-Christ
- My Sermon following #Brexit
- #EUref : A Third Option
- #30daysofcoldshowers
- Take Heart
- Book Review – Come Lord Jesus!
- Justin Welby and Identity
- Evangelical Leadership, by Ian Paul – A Review
- Theocracy – I AM: Probably My Favourite Christian Song of All Time.
- Thinking about Sin: Cernovich and Biblical Metaphors to Improve Your Life
- Lent Reflection: Eucharist – the Seventh Feast
- Lent Reflection: Between Good Friday and Easter
- Lent Reflection: Good Friday and the Prodigal Son
- Lent Reflection: Story Time
- Lent Reflection: Romans and the Prodigal Son
- Lent Reflection: The Father and his Sons
- Lent Reflection: Rejoice With Me!
- Lent Reflection: An Invitation – the Sixth Feast
- St Joseph’s Day and Karl Barth
- Lent Reflection: Rembrandt
- Lent Reflection: Sinners No More
- Lent Reflection: Jesus Eats With Sinners – The Fifth Feast
- Lent Reflection:Who are the Pharisee?
- Lent Reflection: The Fattened Calf
- Lent Reflection: Left Out?
- Lent Reflection: An Unsung Hero
- Lent Reflection: Brothers – The Fourth Feast
- Lent Reflection:Put a Ring on It
- Lent Reflection: “Prodigal God” – John Alexander Wilson
- Lent Reflection: Not Worthy
- John 17, the Larnaca Statement and hopes of Christian Unity
- Lent Reflection: The Finest Robe
- Lent Reflection: A Celebration – the Third Feast
- Lent Reflection: Real Life
- Lent Reflection: But While…
- Lent Reflection: Two Aspects of Sin
- Lent Reflection: The Return of the Prodigal Son
- Lent Reflection: Clarity
- Lent Reflection: Fit for a Pig – the Second Feast
- Lent Reflection: A Strong Famine
- Lent Reflection: Squandered
- Lent Reflection: Lost Wealth
- The Archbishop’s Presidential Address: Reflecting on #Primates2016
- Lent Reflection: a Sinner like us.
- Lent Reflection: Wild Living, the first ‘Feast’
- Lent Reflection: the Man with Two Sons and… Abraham?
- Lent Reflection: “Dad, I wish you were Dead.”
- Lent Reflection: a Man with Two Sons
- Ash Wednesday: Remember, You are Dust
- Laci Green: ATTACK ON ABORTION – a comment.
- A Trustworthy Saying
- Personal Impressions from #Primates2016
- What is Prayer?
- Psalm 97
- One Year Old
- Speak Profitably, Speak Prophetically
- The ‘Elevator’ Question
- Faith: Experiential or Conceptual?
- The Symbolism of the Bread and the Wine
- The Symbolism of the Altar
- The Symbolism of the Cross
- The Significance of the Resurrection
- My Good Friday Prayer
- Trinity
- What Should We Talk About At Christmas?
- A Day
- Our Father…
- An Imagination at Worship
- Five ways that God views Me
- I once was a Child
- Telos/Purpose/Direction
- What Will I Say?
