"I am the Vine. You are the branches," said the Lord Jesus Christ. John 15:5. So why are people trying to join different branches of Christ's church into one branch? Whoever thought that a vine or a tree should have only one branch? Yet this has been the unwieldy vision of the ecumenical movement, which …
Category: Behaviour
Common sense from the Supreme Court
For the second time in recent years, the Supreme Court has brought common sense to bear upon the ill-thought decisions of British governments and inferior courts. Just as the Supreme Court struck down the SNP Government's Named Person legislation, it has now struck down the commonly held view that homosexual activists should not be offended …
Can we believe Theresa May?
Theresa May told the Conservative Party conference today that "austerity is over" and that if her form of Brexit was not implemented there might be no Brexit at all. Is this wishful thinking or reality? Is it even truthful? Is the wish the father of the thought? Why should we believe mere assertions? Can one …
Creeping internet control
In spite of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, most corporations are still at it – surreptitiously gathering more information about you to no purpose other than their psychological profiling of their customers. Reputable websites, such as mainstream newspapers, invite you to register online with them to view their articles. It begins with your name and email. …
The shifting goalposts of secularism
Christianity has always suffered from the readiness of its critics to judge its past by the standards of the present. Secularism is now experiencing the same, the latest phase being the Me-Too movement catching up on the sexual immorality of the 1960s and judging 1960s behaviour by 2010s opinion. The well-known sexual licentiousness of the …
Keir Starmer’s short memory
The Labour Party is in danger of repeating the mistake of the Lib Dems. When the Lib Dem Party in alliance with the Tories after the 2010 General Election broke its pledge not to raise tuition fees, it led to electoral decimation, collapsing from 57 to 8 MPs in the House of Commons in the …
The illiberal Liberal Democrat leader
Vince Cable wants to force the UK to remain in the European Union. "Brexit is not inevitable. It can and it must be stopped." He makes it clear what he wants, and why he wants a final people's vote on Brexit. It is not a desire to give a new choice to the people but …
Celebrating a grand lady
Family and friends There have been a few ladies in my life. The first one was my beloved mother, and I suppose I need to mention my two sisters who knocked the awkward corners off my teenage life. The grand lady in my life is my good lady, Elizabeth, the Home Secretary, His Master's Voice …
A better nature than the one with which you were born
When will the study of human behaviour teach people that each human being needs a radical change of spirit? How many more examples of social media messages full of hate, personal and corporate scandals, and human trafficking and child abuse do we need to hear before people will realise that human nature needs to be …
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Military might, political revolution or Christian love?
Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Hitler and a host of other people sought to aggrandise themselves and build an empire by military might. Karl Marx and his followers want to change the world by political revolution. Jesus Christ is doing it by Christian love, and has been doing it for two millennia, with many more to …
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