BBC Radio Devon – Pause for Thought: Storm Centres During the Pause for Thought recently, I’ve been talking about 7 places I have been to: Storm-centres of history. Today, we will go to Geneva. Geneva is a beautiful city. I don’t know if that was the case half a millennia ago, but back in the mid-16th... Continue Reading →
"In Zurich they didn't do revolts and rampages. They ate sausages. It was Lent of 1522, when twelve friends got together to hold a sausage-eating party. Tradition had it that one was not supposed to eat meat during Lent. These men wanted to defy human tradition. Zwingli sat that one out: making gestures with sausages... Continue Reading →
Is there a connection between the biggest diamond ever, and the small Laotian rock rat? Without wishing in any way to stereotype, is it true that most/many/some women would love to own a large diamond (is that really true?....help me out here!). Anyway, part of the English Crown Jewels is made from a 530-carat Star... Continue Reading →
To good not to post! 31st October-Reformation@499 LYRICS: Martin Luther's the name, but don't confuse me with the King I was just a simple man working on my law degree I was on the road home, and what did I see? Thunderbolt of lightning very very frightening me I was terrified, so I prayed to... Continue Reading →
A wonderful piece on the Reformation from Jason Goroncy over at 'Per Crucem ad Lucem': Reformation Day: 25 Theses 1. Anyone who thinks you can cherry-pick the sixteenth century Reformations for solutions for today’s church and society is an idiot. 2. Anyone who thinks you can ignore the Reformations has their head in the sand. 3.... Continue Reading →
"The Reformation set free the question and nature of the church from the question of who belongs to it. This was a decisive stage. Roman Catholicism and the pre-Reformation church had thought that the question of the nature of the church would be answered by a definition of its extent. The Reformation, and particularly the... Continue Reading →
Gralefrit Theology 