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The Beast Ascendant
The hailing of Donald Trump as God’s chosen one, the anointed, and other similar expressions by some Christians is troubling. Is Trump really being proclaimed as the Messiah?
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Wes Streeting, Please Up Your Game!
Wes Streeting’s adoption of Cosnervative neo-liberal speak regarding the NHS is a fool’s game. Significant increased funding is an absolute necessity if the NHS is going to be restored. Any other proposal is simply disingenuous.
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Supermarket Communion
Holy Communion is one of the central sacraments of the church. The way some churches now celebrate it seems to have yielded entirely to the consumerism of the supermarket.
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Migrants – Who Are the Real Criminals?
The idnetification of the smuggler who provided the boat in which a little girl suffocate to death as her family attempted to cross the Channel was a journalistic coup. But smugglers merely exploit a situation created by the absence of credible, humane and just immigration policies.
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Interesting Times
The agitation by the UK political right to break away from the ECHR is a symptom of a drift away from the ethical and moral anchors of the post-World War II consensus of the last 80 years. This is leading us to a more unstable, “interesting” world!
Diary of a (Maybe) Retired Pastor 