Hardly Ineffable

Didn’t you hear? The Oracle, er Goracle, said Global Warming is meling the polar ice caps!  Oops…So much for that line of argument!

Satellite data shows that concerns over the levels of sea ice may have been premature.

It was feared that the polar caps were vanishing because of the effects of global warming.

But figures from the respected [...]

You shall be My people and I shall be your God. – Ezekiel 36:28

But in fact the Church, as it is experienced today, is often counter-community. It is, in fact, a reflection of societal disintegration. Rather than re-integrating the members of the community, re-orientating them around their union with Christ and one another, the Church often [...]

They [Humanists] have got rid of the Christian God, and now feel obliged to cling all the more firmly to Christian morality: that is English consistency. . . . With us it is different. When one gives up Christian belief, one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. Whoever tries to peel off this [...]

This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.You and I are told we must choose between a left [...]

The Drudge Report highlights a story with the title: “Archbishop says nativity ‘a legend’“. My first thought was that here was some liberal church leader decrying the virgin birth. But then I decided to check the link. Low and behold, I agree with the Archbishop of Canterbury:

The Archbishop went on to dispel other details of the [...]

“What does it profit a man if he reasons about the high secret mysteries of the Trinity but lacks meekness and so displeases [...]

Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is [...]

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an [...]