Category Archives: Bible

The Episcopal Church In The USA Going Towards Demise

By Malgwyn | December 29, 2009

The Episcopal Church is winding down in America. Winding down in numbers: from 3.5 million in 1965 to 2 million today - “that’s a 43 percent drop from a year when the United States had about half as many people as it does today” - on the rolls that is. Attendance figures are considered to [...]

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The Two Sides To Christmas

By Malgwyn | December 26, 2009

First - there is this take on last minute shopping. Charles Wesley is said to have written over 6000 hymns - this humorous adaptation of one of his most well-known hymns might represent the reality of Christmas in our Western world.
Come, Thou Unexpected Jesus (with apologies to Charles Wesley)
Come, Thou unexpected Jesus,
Interrupt our spending spree.
Shopping [...]

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Was Jesus A Real Person?

By Malgwyn | November 12, 2009

It was not what I expected to see on the Daily Mail Website - and especially on ‘Best of The Web’ section. While not a subject he engages in it is a doubt that Dawkins implies in TGD, ‘which he would, wouldn’t he!’ But in this era of faith and science conflict it is a [...]

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St Teresa’s Relics & Luther & The Reformation

By Malgwyn | October 11, 2009

St Teresa’s UK itinerary ends at Westminster tomorrow. I was saying in the last post that it is nearly 500 years since relics and the selling of indulgences split Europe in two, Catholic and Protestant. The 16th Century Reformation resulted from one man’s spiritual struggle, Martin Luther, over how we are put right with God.

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Jesus’ Murder Squad!

By Malgwyn | August 16, 2009

I’ve been reading some bad news about what is happening to Christians in Iran  in the wake of the current political unrest. “Pressure on Iranian Christians is growing just as foreign powers are being blamed for rioting that broke out due to the electoral fraud. The argument on the influence of foreign powers is well [...]

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Dawkins & Superstition III

By Malgwyn | July 31, 2009

A Resume of Martin Luther’s Change of Heart and How We are Put Right With God
In my immediate previous posts one and two I responded to Professor Dawkins’ view of what he understands as ‘a personal experience with God’ (TGD, p. 87-92), with my own contrary views. Here I will finish with my view [...]

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A Scientist’s View on “Suffering and Death

By Malgwyn | May 26, 2009

A kind friend sent me a link - he thought I would appreciate the blog - and so I do. I can see I will be more than dipping into this blog. It leaves me a bit like when I read Darwin’s Black Box - I couldn’t put it down. While Behe did a good [...]

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The Translation That Rocked the World

By Malgwyn | January 11, 2009

In the year of Darwin’s Bicentenary C. T. reminds us of another Book that rocked the world. Says C.T., “No other work has had as strong an impact on a nation’s development and heritage as has this Book.”

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If Only I Could Be A Bird

By Malgwyn | December 25, 2008

If Only I Could Be A Bird is a Christmas parable by Louis Cassels who was for many years the religion editor of United Press International. His column “Religion in America” appeared in over four hundred newspapers during the mid-nineteenth century
Once upon a time, there was a man who looked upon Christmas as a lot of humbug. He [...]

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The False Prosperity Gospel

By Malgwyn | November 2, 2008

Are We Promised Prosperity? So asks Albert Mohler, President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA. Says Mohler, “Lee Grady, editor of Charisma magazine, explained it this way: “It definitely goes on, that a preacher might say, ‘if you give this offering, God will give you a house.’ And if they did get the house, people did [...]

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