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!
Hopes for a new baby being baptised
These are troubling times. They are times that call out for us to pause as we go through our daily lives, and consider what life is, or should be, all about. What follows are some ideas that I shared as part of a public baptism. I find as I read these words, that I hope you’ll enjoy, that they have more relevance now than when I wrote them, several years ago. Please do let me know what you think.
What should we be looking for in a new Prime Minister?
Some of you have given me positive feedback about my interview with Danny Doran. If you’ve explored Danny’s site further (‘The Infinite Jigsaw Podcast’), you’ll have come across the ten short interviews that Danny made with ‘Carbon Mike’, who is the founder of the Foundationist movement – see http://www.futurerad.io I came across Danny after these interviews had started, and I’ve only recently finished listening to them all. I was struck by how much ‘Foundationism’ has in common with Christianity, but also the contribution that the Foundationist Manifesto could make towards the selection of a new British Prime Minister.
“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Regular readers of this blog will know that I hadn’t intended to post any further blogs until late September, as a result of a planned long sailing voyage. But as they say, the best laid plans……
Reflective Preacher 