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Oct 4, 2022

‘Oly ‘Oly ‘Oly: a tribute to growing up in the church choir

It’s Christmas 2011. In Redland Green Park, the slightly more evangelicaland all-round quirky Redland Church is accompanying We Three Kings with a drum kit and electric guitar. Most of the families are loving this fusion and bopping up and down with their kids on their shoulders. Throughout the crowd, there…

Church

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Church

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Jul 14, 2022

Disability and Idiom in the New Testament

“We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us.” Anyone who has been brought up Anglican will recognise this section of the BCP. Week in, week out…

Christianity

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Christianity

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Jul 9, 2022

A Modern “Cost of Discipleship”

“It’s ironic that they buried Machiavelli here but won’t let Rhiannon’s knees in” While my friend Greta’s remark on Santa Cruce was a joke, there is a certain pithiness to it. She captures modern discontent with organised religion and its supposed justification of well-established patriarchal norms like policing women’s bodies…

Theology

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A Modern “Cost of Discipleship”
A Modern “Cost of Discipleship”
Theology

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Jul 2, 2021

"Cofiwch Dryweryn": 65 years on

“Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth, Ry’n ni yma o hyd.” (English: Despite everyone and everything, we are still here.) Dafydd Iwan, “Yma O Hyd” (1981) “Arguably the most dramatic hydro-political event in the history of the United Kingdom,”[1] the drowning of Capel Celyn near the town of Bala sparked violent…

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"Cofiwch Dryweryn": 65 years on
"Cofiwch Dryweryn": 65 years on

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Jun 18, 2021

Immunisation should be legally AND morally compulsory

Immunisation should be legally AND morally compulsory The debate around vaccination in modern times is most significantly about whether or not the government has the right and duty to compel people to be immunised, or whether this compulsion is the duty of individuals and society. The applied ethical scenario of…

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May 9, 2021

Book Review 9/5/21:

A few weeks ago, I read “How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy” by Julian Baggini (2018). Here are my thoughts. The obvious problem with it is always going to be that it is a Western philosopher who is used to writing and categorising as the prime medium…

Philosophy

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Book Review 9/5/21:
Book Review 9/5/21:
Philosophy

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Apr 15, 2021

AJ Ayer, 1987: an imagined narrative based on a true anecdote.

‘Freddie’ lightened his step towards Sanchez’s apartment, wishing to appear precocious and yet desirable to the swathes of women waiting outside. Not for him. He knew that; he was nearing 80 and starting to feel less certain than ever. The insatiable desire to be recognised and desired had left his intellectual harmony in shreds; his firm convictions had dwindled to ‘a death of a thousand qualifications’ as his trend of philosophy was lying dormant; nothing was as meaningful or meaningless as A or B, but rather the lines of morality, yes, of his own life, were much less defined. It was the only way to answer for his respected Oxonian persona and yet the fact that Jocelyn was no longer living with him. 11 years and counting. No language game could talk this proposition into meaning apart from dull pain.

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Apr 7, 2021

6/4/21: I interviewed an Amish community on zoom?

Overall it was a humbling experience. The Bruderhof community is worldwide but has branches in the UK, Australia, South Korea and many others. Founded in 1920, it is a long term project which many will be familiar with from watching dramatisations of such communities- personally I learned of them from…

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