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 →
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 →
One of the things that the Reformers wrestled back from the Catholic Church was how to do church! From complexity to simplicity, from pomposity to humility, from monotone to multi-coloured, from virtual blindness and deafness to 3D vision with surround sound. The Sacraments took centre stage in the raging debates of the 16th century from... 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 