God is dead ?
God is dead ? DM 4th September 2023 Katharina Luther once resorted to a clever ruse to rouse her famous husband out of his depression. She entered his room dressed in funeral clothes, and when Luther predictably asked who had died, she said, ‘I thought God must have died, by the way you are acting’. […]
The Hottest Part
The Hottest Part DM 28th August 2023 In my school days, there was no such thing as a licence for operating a Bunsen burner in the science lab. From many misspent years of smoking and many mischievous deeds performed at cracker night, my pyromaniac friends and I knew how to strike a match and understood […]
Artificial limits
Artificial Limits DM 21st August 2023 “And on that farm he had a bot, AI-AI-O.” What a world is the world of Artificial Intelligence. How quickly the digital cogs turn, and how rapidly the line is approaching when we won’t be able to tell the difference between the real and the artificial. Alan Turing would […]
Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve DM 14th August 2023 I wonder what Adam and Eve were like before the Fall. The Bible tells us many things about what they were like after, but gives only the briefest details about their state of innocence. I wonder how they spoke, what they looked like, and how they related to […]
Oaken lore
Oaken lore DM 7th August 2023 I wondered why the autumn leaves on my oak tree were still hanging on, though the worst of the winter winds had done their best to set them free. They seemed not just to defy their deciduous relations, who were already looking decidedly naked, but even gravity itself, with […]
The Case of the Missing Q
The Case of the Missing Q DM 31st July 2023 There’s a long-standing tradition in theological circles that Matthew and Luke drew from a common source when they wrote their Gospel accounts. Theologians assign the letter Q to this supposed common-source document, which stands for quelle, the German word for source. The complete theory is […]
Me O My
Me O My DM 24th July 2023 In a recent sermon on David’s famous Twenty-third Psalm, ‘The Lord is my Shepherd’, I sheepishly confessed that I had referred to the word ‘my’ as a personal pronoun, when in fact, it is a possessive pronoun. Believe it or not, there are eight different subcategories of pronouns […]
The Darkling Thrush
The Darkling Thrush DM 17th July 2023 I think that, had they met, Solomon and Luke would have got on well, for they both observed the same thing. People running hither and thither to endless conferences; people reading and writing endless books; people tuning in and tuning out of endless talk shows. All looking for […]
The meaning of life
The Meaning Of Life DM 10th July 2023 I think that, had they met, Solomon and Luke would have got on well, for they both observed the same thing. People running hither and thither to endless conferences; people reading and writing endless books; people tuning in and tuning out of endless talk shows. All looking […]
Meaty prayers
Meaty Prayers DM 3rd July 2023 I only looked once, but had to think twice. The advertising sign for a roadside motel announced in big bold letters: “Free BBQ”. I was keen to pull over and book in for the night, and dreamed of the big breakfast, instead of that one of the continental kind. […]