How a fourth century thinker helps us challenge the meaningless universe of (post-)modernity. Was love the answer all along?
Category: Christianity
Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No-one comes to the Father, except through me” Did he mean something like “if you want to get to the Father, you have to get through me first? Is Jesus standing in the way, preventing people from getting to God, like a soothsayer on a bridge asking impossible questions? Or is “the way” more like being the Mandalorian, where “this is the way” refers to a whole way of life? What do Jesus, Monty Python, and the Mandalorian have to do with one another? And was it absolutely necessary to bring Wittgenstein into it?
A reflection on money, power, Succession, and the meaning of life.
No-one knew it was Holy Saturday that first time. No-one who lived through Good Friday would have called it anything but evil, terrible, destructive. The end of all that they had hoped for. All that excitement – the drama of being called and leaving everything to follow this new rabbi, the gradual buildup of the […]
In difficult times, our simplistic answers stop working. What is life all about? What big story am I part of?
When we picture Jesus entering Jerusalem, do we imagine the whole of the city turning out to celebrate the arrival of the Messiah? Or is there something altogether stranger happening? What does it all mean?
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For God so loved the world
Do you actually know what John 3:16 means? I was shocked to discover that I didn’t, until a few days ago. Also: what on earth do snakes have to do with it?
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The Real Temple
The Second Temple was destroyed almost two thousand years ago, but the temptation to think that God has a house, that anything other than Jesus is where we could seek God’s presence, remains as strong as ever.
Am I right in thinking that Conspiracy Theories are an attempt to escape legitimate suffering? And what do they have to do with the Transfiguration?
Eleven years ago, in the Good Old Days, I walked the Camino de Santiago for 800 km across Spain. I was strongly reminded of it by this week’s Gospel story when Jesus sets out on his journey to preach and heal across Galilee
Alister Pate 