All funeral services reveal something of their designer’s hand, and we know that Her late Majesty the Queen was involved in every detail of her own service.
Month: September 2022
Surely hereditary monarchy can never be justified?
If you’d asked me when I started writing for this site in April 2019 whether I would find myself writing an article on how hereditary monarchy could be justified, I’d have answered: ‘No. Never’. So here it is.
Can a monarch ever really be humble? Not without a very deep faith in Christ.
In July 2003, when I was Director of The Historic Churches Preservation Trust, I had to organise a celebration of the Trust’s 50th anniversary. Our Patron was Her Majesty the Queen. The photo above was taken on that occasion. Many people meet the Queen, but few are lucky enough to spend more than 15 minutes in her company, as I did then
Does Extinction Rebellion want to prevent extinction? Or encourage it?
‘Scientific evidence confirms that natural cycles, volcanic activity, galactic cosmic rays and changes in solar activity from sunspots have had a negligible effect on our current temperature rise.’ ‘There is nothing magical about the greenhouse effect. We know exactly how to deal with it.’ So states the website of ‘Extinction Rebellion’. Wow! My mind boggles at how the tests for that ‘scientific evidence’ could have been designed, measured and recorded!
Reflective Preacher 