Posted by Admin-ConfessingEvangelical | Jun 6, 2010 | Theology |
I came across this quote in an old notebook, from a 2008 interview in the Spectator with Dom Hugh Gilbert (the abbot of Pluscarden Abbey who was at that time being talked of as a possible successor to Cardinal Cormac Murphy...
Read MorePosted by Admin-ConfessingEvangelical | Jun 3, 2010 | Theology |
James Alison continues with his theme of God liking us in chapter 7 of On Being Liked (available online here). While the title indicates that Alison’s principal concern is with “unbinding the gay conscience”, much of what he...
Read MorePosted by Admin-ConfessingEvangelical | May 30, 2010 | Theology |
Over on my politics blog yesterday I wrote a post about David Laws, chief secretary of the Treasury until his resignation over questionable expenses claims. One of the points I made in that post was that the circumstances of...
Read MorePosted by Admin-ConfessingEvangelical | Sep 23, 2009 | science |
Talking of exercise, the FT has a fascinating profile of Jerry Morris, “The man who invented exercise”. Morris is a scientist who spent the late 1940s investigating the post-war epidemic of deaths from heart attacks. He set up a...
Read MorePosted by Admin-ConfessingEvangelical | Sep 22, 2009 | History |
A few months ago, the Guardian letters page published this appreciation of the Marxist historian John Saville, who had recently died. The writer recalled being a student of Saville’s at Hull University in the early 1970s,...
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