The Anglican Lectionary at Christmas – A seasonal rant A discussion of the incoherence of the Anglican lectionary around Christmas, and a suggestion for something better (30th December 2023)
The final sermon. My final sermon at St Michael-on-Greenhill in Lichfield at Pentecost 2023 after 25 years of ministry there (30th May 2023).
In the three blogs below, I indulge in some speculations concerning the nature and purpose of the created world and of God and humanity. These thoughts are based on the orthodox Christian narrative of fall, incarnation, atonement and resurrection, and I hope, take the scriptural revelation seriously. They nonetheless have a distinctly scientific and technical flavour that some might find rather cold and off putting. I would simply hope that what I write can complement the more traditional understanding of God and his love for his world and his people. Readers are of course completely free to choose whether or not the give my thoughts any credence at all!
Plot and purpose – some speculations on the putpose of creation, arising from my thoughts on environmental issues (27th April 2023)
Transcendence and Imminence. How can God be described as both Transcendent and Imminent, which seems a logical contradiction. Some thoughts from modern physics. (27th April 2023)
Fall, incarnation and atonement. This follows on from the last post – how does the Christian narrative of fall, incarnation and atonement fit into the framework that has been proposed. (27th April 2023)
The beloved disciple – the missing years. A post that arose out of reflections on the book “Jesus and the eyewitnesses” by Richard Bauckham (7th April 2023)
The changing face of death. A blog post introducing a statistical analysis of the interment records and monuments of St Michael’s churchyard in Lichfield from 1813 to 2012, looking at the changes in funerary patterns over that period. (February 24th 2023)
Measurements of carbon dioxide concentrations in a church. A post describing some measurements of Carbon Dioxide concentrations in St. Michael’s church in Lichfield on May 15th 2022 (May 24th 2022)
Eschatology, environment and evangelism. A rare theological blog post from me, suggesting ways in which eschatology and care for the environment may be used in evangelism (January 10th 2022)
Covid-19 – how risky are church services? A look at the risk of Covid infection in one church – St. Michael’s in Lichfield (July 27th 2021)
The calculation of Covid-19 infection rates in churches. An application of the method of Jimenez and his group to the specific case of Covid infection in churches. Includes a downloadable spreadsheet (July 12th 2021)
Engineering, history and ecclesiology 