Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Helicopter hovering overhead.

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I'm in my back garden and there's a helicopter hovering overhead. I admire the technology, but find myself trying to imagine what ...
Thursday, 10 April 2025

Wetting yourself

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This post describes three events in which someone wets themself: pees in their pants. It was motivated by the third event described below wh...
Sunday, 17 November 2024

The Fall of Jericho: biblical genocide?

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The guest preacher, Terry Boyle , at the Church I attend this morning (Sunday 17/11/2024) preached on this reading: Joshua 5: 13–15   The Fa...
Monday, 30 September 2024

What to do about Psalm 124?

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Yesterday (29 th September 2024) I was on the rota for reading at Church, and found myself reading Psalm 124 , one of the lectionary readin...
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Sunday, 8 September 2024

Why create God? Thoughts at a funeral

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I recently attended a funeral at the local crematorium with about 17 mourners. I didn't really know the deceased, though he was someone ...
Friday, 6 September 2024

The Sea of Faith Network: Religion as a human creation

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From 2025 I shall be editing Sofia magazine : the magazine of the Sea of Faith Network .  Or, more precisely, I shall be editing the magazin...
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Friday, 8 March 2024

The rifle brought about the birth of these United States

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 From Geoff Mann "Give your mom a gun" ( LRB Vol. 46 No. 5 · 7 March 2024 ) Guns are central to America’s mythology. In the patrio...