Words and pictures

Words and pictures

Revelation, as you may have noticed, is choc-a-bloc with some very strange images. John is asked, “What do you see?” Often Christians see things that are not there in the bible, make connections that don’t exist and use them to justify things that are morally...
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Stranger things

We humans are incurably curious. We ask the big questions about our existence: how come things exist at all? How did we get here? What are we for? Many people believe science has debunked faith as the answer to these fundamental questions of our existence. Yet, today,...
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Israel and Gaza

On Saturday morning 7th October, the terrorist group Hamas breached the border encompassing the Palestinian territory of Gaza. What followed was unspeakable in its savagery. In a rain of terror paragliders with machine guns descended on a desert rave, Jewish families...
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Clyde built theology

The Rapture was Clyde-built! Yes, the west of Scotland’s, or more precisely Port Glasgow’s, foremost contribution to the world of theology, is the widespread belief that Christians will be extracted from the world ahead of a great tribulation. The notion that flowed...