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Faith and ‘Reason’
If we are to defend Reason, we must be inspired by more than Reason to do so. Terry Eagleton Here’s a fascinating talk in which the dear Dr Eagleton, esteemed literary theorist, furious Marxist and...
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On the Soul
Dear friends, I have, for the last few days, been dipping into a wonderful collection of essays by Marilynne Robinson, called When I Was a Child I Read Books. I’ve managed to steal a computer for a...
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“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great...
“…In the First Epistle of Peter we are told to honour everyone, and I have never been in a situation where I felt this instruction was inappropriate. When we accept dismissive judgements of our...
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Modernity as Moral Arbiter
Here’s a comment piece by a hero of mine from the Left, Owen Jones, who indeed celebrates the loss of the case in the Supreme Court by the Bulls today, who lost their final appeal to say that based on...
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Why Democracy is Evil!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPwW8nBVc0g Remember this from last month?
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The death of a true saint
This weekend was incredibly sad; the lion of the Arab Spring in Saudi Arabia was executed, along with forty-six other poor souls, on trumped-up ‘terrorism’ charges. What he did was called for a...
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Critical LiberatIon?
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist. – Archbishop Hélder Pessoa Câmara OFS
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On Suffering
Tell me what you do with your suffering, I will tell you who you are. Dr Tariq Ramadan’s understanding of suffering through Nietzsche as a transformational experience. I wonder, what do we do with our...
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https://youtu.be/53tqxdYlspg So, is it just me, or are the grovelling sycophants being…well sycophantic? Paul Ryan wants to *spend* federal dollars? I’ve never seen something so tragically asinine....
View ArticleLiving in this world; outrage at evil or seeing the Good of God?
Friends – all three of you! – I thought I’d share a passage mentioned in the introduction to a translation of a short treatise the great sage and master, ibn al-‘Arabī of Andalusia, wrote to an...
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