Monthly Archives: May 2026

Nudging society to destruction

Apart from anticipating the likely collapse of our entire fiat monetary system, I’ve been vaguely concerned that, as a blogger sometimes dealing with controversial subjects, I might find myself among the half million Brits now debanked each year, since the Nigel Farage case brought the issue to light. After all, I’ve already had my account blocked a couple of times, simply for making perfectly legitimate purchases the bank’s algorithms disliked. It took long calls to fraud departments to re-open it (with no way of stopping the same thing happening next time). What I didn’t expect was that my church would be debanked first.

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Unite the Kingdom May 16

I suppose many of my UK readers will be up to speed on the rally in London yesterday, organised by the infamous Tommy Yaxley-Robinson, originally known as Stephen Real-Name. But I attach a few remarks, partly for overseas readers wondering what England has become.

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Paul in Athens

When our Pastor reached the last part of Acts 17 in our serial exposition of Acts last week, I realised that Paul’s address to the Areopagus Society was even cleverer than I’ve always assumed.

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Does matter matter?

A stimulating four-way discussion between mathematicians David Berlinski, Sergiu Klainerman, and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, mediated by Peter Robinson, proposes that the existence of mathematics is a likely defeater for naturalist materialism, and a strong argument for theism.

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We meet the Word in the word, not in the world

When I was writing The Generations of Heaven and Earth I made extensive use of John H. Sailhamer’s The Meaning of the Pentateuch. It was somewhere in that large tome, if memory serves, that he wrote something to the effect that theology should not be concerned with historical events, as such, but with the Bible’s record of historical events.

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