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Continue reading →: The Pandemic in the UK
2020 Day 71 of first lockdown (from my diary) ‘The contemporary Christian prophets had predicted that Brexit would result in revival. Yet there is still no revival. After Brexit was decided I’d expected the prophets (who are a kind of obscure interest to a few) to state that the LORD…
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Continue reading →: A Snapshot
2020 I was glad at first to see the two street preachers in the centre of town on a rainy day. I had a little time to spare that day. I sat on some steps listening to the first preacher. He was a man with a bag for life, possibly…
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Continue reading →: Brexit and Revival
2016 (From my diary) ‘Some Christian writers are suggesting that the vote for Brexit has resulted in the start of a revival. I somehow doubt it. Believers are divided on which way to vote but the general consensus from those who say they know how God feels over news events, is…
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Continue reading →: The US
Written on 15th September 2016. America. Virginia. Christian college – Regent campus. Donald Trump is against Hilary Clinton to get into the White House, but sexism is still alive and kicking. I suppose the thing which has really interested me is the way that faith issues are talked about so…
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Continue reading →: A Buddhist Perspective
2015 Of course, there were other faiths which I didn’t encounter so much. I could spend 25 more years finding the views of so many other faiths. From animists to Mormons, I would be spending my life asking for new perspectives. It was confusing enough as it was. For example: ‘What…
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Continue reading →: The Economists’ Perspective
2014 This is going to be a dry entry. Basically, we are talking money and law. Please feel free to stop now if you are not interested… I’m not going to be talking about World War III and weapons of mass destruction here… I’m not sure how we can make…
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Continue reading →: A Jewish Perspective
October 2010 University of Birmingham I went to see the late Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks for his talk on the role of faith in modern day Britain, in an event organised by the Jewish Society (JSoc). He stated that he saw faith as a force for good in society.…
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Continue reading →: Some Atheist Points of View
2008 Concerned that I had maybe written off atheists, I joined a debating group on Facebook and asked: ‘Am I being prejudiced by not liking atheists?’ The consensus in response was that, yes, I was being prejudiced in not liking them. Never happy with personal prejudices I adjusted my perspective and…
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Continue reading →: An Agnostic View
2008 I asked agnostic Jason (June 2008) if he thought a Christian revival was possible. He also understood the idea immediately but was sceptical about revival phenomena such as miracles of healing. I asked him what the church needed to do. He said: “The things any religion needs to have a…
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Continue reading →: An Orthodox View
2005 In 2005, interested in all things Russian, I decided to attend a small Russian Orthodox Church in Birmingham. In the past I had visited numerous different church denominations – many different Protestant denominations and some Catholic churches. But I had never visited an Orthodox church. It was close to…
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