Category Archives: Theology

British unexceptionalism

Posted on 18/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

Just as COVID threw into sharp relief the capture of of our institutions by dark forces, acting as confirmation to those of us who had suspected we were being led into serfdom through propaganda, so the Ukraine war has clarified to what extent the mythos of the American military-industrial complex trying to impose its hegemony over the whole world is, in fact, sober truth.

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Black in tooth and claw

Posted on 13/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

Just a brief nature note today. Back in 2015, in a post on genes, I mentioned the serendipity of noticing a wild black rabbit out of my study window as I was writing it.

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Subversion, schism and reformation

Posted on 02/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

Apparently the inevitable has happened this last week at the Baptist Union, as it has in so many denominations in the western world. Although I only have the story through a casual conversation, it seems as if a group has introduced a motion for the Union to allow the ordination of openly gay ministers, although there is as yet no official change in policy even on the 2014 affirmation of traditional marriage. In response, a petition has been started in defence of the historical view of marriage. Fisticuffs will follow.

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What you feel is real

Posted on 01/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

So we had an old college friend to stay, a female Anglican vicar… sorry, priest … who is the same age as us and not a young product of the woke educational system, though she did do her seminary training in the age of the Anglican Church as “The Labour Party at prayer.

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Equipped for war?

Posted on 27/03/2022 by Jon Garvey

After five years my term as a church elder has finished. And at the same church meeting suggestions for the future direction of the fellowship were solicited.

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Anomalies

Posted on 04/03/2022 by Jon Garvey

Anomalies are often the key to truth: the annoying aberration of a fact from one’s view of the world can lead to new insights that completely overturn your reality.

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What about Ukraine, then?

Posted on 01/03/2022 by Jon Garvey

How is the ongoing satanic deception operating in the current war?

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Joe Rogan and Woodstock

Posted on 08/02/2022 by Jon Garvey

An interesting discussion between atheist/agnostic James Lindsay, who has become an expert critic of all things woke, and Beth Stuckey, a Christian Calvinist YouTuber, is here.

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Hard cheese for ptarmigan

Posted on 01/02/2022 by Jon Garvey

What hope for the ptarmigan’s future? I doubt most of you have ever asked that question. But as I belatedly watched Winterwatch yesterday, the ever-pessimistic Chris Packham bemoaned their decline in numbers and warned of their imminent extinction, of course due to climate change.

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Evil beyond conception

Posted on 26/01/2022 by Jon Garvey

Is Boris Johnson being more liberal regarding COVID because he’s under political pressure from scandal, or is he under political pressure from scandal because he’s being more liberal regarding COVID? Certainly Britain, and specifically England as opposed to the devolved regions, is an outlier amongst the western nations in dispensing with mask mandates, vaccine passports and so on.

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