Author Archives
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England! Remember your noble past!
Lest we forget.
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Textual Criticism Syllabus
A mouth-watering new post on Professor Bart Ehrman’s webpage. I wish I was doing this course 😦 Course Description This class focuses on one of the foundational disciplines of biblical studies. New Testament textual criticism has experienced a significant resurgence… Read More ›
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ISIS plot exposed
Perhaps Islamophobes have a point. We are told that Muslims secretly support ISIS and maybe they are right after all: here is evidence on a publicly available map of an ISIS installation in London’s Kensington Gardens – just look how… Read More ›
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Islam’s stance on Music
I spent a very pleasant afternoon at Regents Park Mosque with the brothers, and I bought this controversial work from the bookshop…
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I asked Siri – how long is a piece of string?
a perfect answer:
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Visit Palestine.
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Second thoughts..
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Israel and its American allies remember this..
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Sad, but true
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ISIS, Slavery, and Islamic Abolitionism
reblogged from The Huffington Post By Usaama al-Azami PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University Does Islam sanction slavery? Until recently, this question would have been seen as somewhat outlandish or else academic. It is akin to the question: does Christianity… Read More ›
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Feeling Stuck? A Powerful Method to Seek the Best Advice
If you need counsel about some matter that has suddenly happened to you, then begin by exposing it to the spontaneity of the young, for surely their minds are sharper, and their intuition is quicker; then after that refer it… Read More ›
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Crossexamined.org Inconsistency and Inaccuracy
Originally posted on Yahya Snow's Blog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hd_N6Fpgvc This is a video in which we see a Christian apologist, Jonathan McLatchie of Cross Examined, just copy some internet Islamophobic lies and repeats them in a church. I’m not sure if… -
Irony at its finest
In this interview from April 15th, 1994 Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime wouldn’t be a great idea. He also stipulates that “not very many” American soldiers’ lives were worth losing to take… Read More ›
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Opium is the religion of the masses.
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Now let me get a picture of the ship under water..
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Incarnation Blues
Is it possible for the finite to contain the infinite? I don’t think so.
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Study reveals that a lot of psychology research really is just ‘psycho-babble’
reblogged from the Independent Psychology has long been the butt of jokes about its deep insight into the human mind – especially from the “hard” sciences such as physics – and now a study has revealed that much of its… Read More ›
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Diagnosis
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Melinda Selmys: Sadomasochism, Satan and Same-Sex Attraction
Originally posted on Spiritual Friendship:
Over at Catholic Authenticity, Melinda Selmys has a new post about why there is no one-size-fits-all approach to ministry to same-sex attracted Christians: Consider the following two men: The first started to look at heterosexual pornography… -
The Church of the Oratory during construction, South Kensington, London
The Brompton Oratory is a large neo-classical Roman Catholic church. It is one of my favourite churches in London and one of the most well attended. I discovered this architectural drawing made during its construction in the early 1880s. And… Read More ›
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Muslims are backward and ignorant & have never contributed anything to civilisation
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Qur’an Or Bible? Most People Can’t Tell The Difference… Can You?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rennerlarson/quran-or-bible-most-people-cant-tell-the-differ-1haar ‘Christian and Islamic Scripture is much more similar than you may realize. Test your knowledge of Bible and Qur’an verses, and see how well you really know your Scripture!’
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Donall and Conall Meet the Mormon Missionaries
Our fifth century Irish peasant friends are slightly skeptical about Mormonism’s claim to be the one true church.
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St. Patrick’s Bad Analogies
The problem with using analogies to explain the Trinity is that you always end up confessing some ancient heresy.
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Hope
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My servants
When My servants ask thee concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them), I listen to the prayer of every supplicant when he calleth on Me: Let them also, with a will, Listen to My call, and believe in Me:… Read More ›
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The Precise Calculation
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Becoming Muslim: C. Huda Dodge
(published January 2015 on Masud.co.uk) In The Name of Allah Most Gracious, Most Merciful. It’s interesting for me to look back on my life and see how it all fits together – how Allah planned this for me all along…. Read More ›
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Becoming Muslim: Gregg
(published January 2015 on Masud.co.uk) In The Name of Allah Most Gracious, Most Merciful. I became muslim in 1990 at the age of 27. I was born to a Lutheran Christian family in the American Mid-West, which was not terribly… Read More ›
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A line I often hear at Speakers Corner
Blogging Theology 