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Passion Not Required
Just recently UbiRat posted One Year Hurrah, celebrating the first anniversary of this blog. I suppose… [more]
Does Ritual Rule You?
This last week has been full of rituals. Last weekend I joined RevDMac's family for the celebration… [more]
One Secret for Stress-Free Living
"We can't all do everything." - Virgil, 70-19 BCE Chatting to a very good friend of mine on the 'phone,… [more]
Is Contempt Killing You?
The driver steered his car along the single-carriageway road, guiding the vehicle carefully around each… [more]
Do You Face Up To Evil?
For a lot of people in Western culture the concept of "evil" is not one which we generally spend a lot… [more]
Your Faith Is Not Irrational
A Quick Question There's a man I know who every day washes himself thoroughly and goes, barefoot, into… [more]
Four Aspects Of Faith
What Is Faith? For many people faith is something that is nebulous and ill-defined. Sure, you can go… [more]
Is Your Faith A Private Matter?
One of the most consistently repeated phrases that I have had thrust upon me when conversation turns… [more]
One Measures A Circle Beginning Anywhere
My wife started reading Fortean Times several years ago and, I have to confess, that ever since I have… [more]
Looking At Faith In The Workplace
Many people will tell you that we now live in a global economy and that, increasingly, we need to be… [more]
Remembering Why
I think that there is a certain honour and privilege attached to being asked to express your views. Most… [more]
3 Reasons Why Pushing Your Religion Is A Bad Idea
All of us hold a world-view, a picture in our minds about how the world works and what is real or unreal.… [more]
Liberate Your Faith From Stuffiness
Stuffiness is the enemy. My first experience of religion came from the semi-rural Church of England.… [more]
Tribalism: Why Faith Is Social
Throughout human history, and only until recently, faith has been an inherently social phenomena. The idea… [more]
What Everyone Ought To Know About Responsibility
Tragic events have occurred in Cumbria these past couple of days. Some dozen people were murdered, dozens… [more]
Latest Articles
Debunking The Nativity
As the Rat has saved me the trouble of putting together a piece on secularisation and Christmas, I thought I’d turn my hand to one of my pet hates: the ‘traditional’ nativity scene. It’s a pet hate because of the copious amounts of misinformation contained within it when compared with the Biblical accounts on which [...]
A Christmas Hypocrisy?
One of the persistent niggles that arises from contemporary British culture is that curiosity called “Christmas”. Sitting in a classroom a few days ago, the day before the school offered an optional Christmas celebration of carols and songs of a decidedly Christian nature, I was confronted by a curious situation. Here were a class of [...]
Halloween Ponderings
As I might have mentioned before, I am retraining to become a Primary School teacher. I am very lucky in having the support of a good local Primary School with a fantastic approach to teaching and a very competent school team. I am in at the deep end, teaching one lesson a week (with no [...]
Creation Week: What The Bible Doesn’t Say!
Genesis Chapter One This is an article that I have wanted to write for a while, but time and life have frequently gotten in the way. It is much delayed from the Rat’s articles on Science and Religion which originally sparked the idea for writing it. It has also been delayed by my usual over-efficiency [...]
Reflections From Ganesha
Visiting Twycross Zoo, in Warwickshire (England), yesterday we enjoyed walking around the relatively new Uda Walawe Elephant Walkway which, perhaps unsurprisingly, surrounds the Elephant enclosure. From this new themed area of the zoo you get some beautiful views over the enclosure and can see all four of the majestic animals without the fence lines obstructing [...]
