New Motto card for 2012

Well the new motto card has been ordered and should be here for Sunday!

David Cameron and The failure of Christian vision

Two stories grabbed my attention this week. The first was an article in the Economist magazine entitled “God in austerity Britain”. The other was the talk by David Cameron to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.

Friday is the end……

Well that is according to my favourite religious nutter, Harold Camping. It is he good reader who you may remember said that the world was coming to an end five months ago.

How well do you really follow the Bible?

I was listening to the radio last week (I think it was 5 live) and there was an article about a woman in the US who had decided to spend a year following all the rules in the Bible for women. She says on her blog about her year:

Dr Paula Gooder on interpreting the bible

One of the most inspirational bible scholars that I have heard in recent years is Dr Paula Gooder. She has come and spoken several times in the diocese and what has been amazing has been her ability to speak to people from across the traditions and her enthusiasm for the bible.

Why do people want the Rapture?

I was talking to my lovely Muslim neighbours today and mentioned that it was the Rapture today. They hadn’t heard that it was due to happen. They asked that we leave our youngest daughter behind (who is great friends with their youngest daughter). We both laughed and went our ways. But for thousands of people [...]

Rapture day tomorrow – are you prepared?

Well many of you will already have read my article Will Jesus return on May 21st at about 6pm? – In fact its my second most popular article of all time!

The Exodus according to Google, Facebook and Twitter

H/t to the Ugley Vicar for this Clip. Great fun. Similar to the Digital Christmas and Social Christmas that I put up at Christmas time.

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Are these the nails that crucified Jesus?

Canadian-Israeli director Simcha Jacobovici has come up with the view that some nails found in a Jewish tomb are the nails that crucified Jesus. How does he arrive at this conclusion? They have been found in a burial cave that contained two ossuaries

Ancient book found to be fake

There have been reports in the media in the past week about an ancient book that has been reported as being potentially the earliest Christian manuscript around.

Ian Paul has done a very interesting post looking at the claims and coming to the conclusion its a hoax. Its well worth reading and a fascinating insight.