On Boxing Day, TheOneRing.net (TORN) posted a Facebook link to one of their archived articles entitled – The Hobbit: an essentially Christian story. For me that was like saying the Sun rises in the East. A blatantly obvious fact. So much so that I originally felt no need to read the article. What changed my … Read More →
Tag Archives: Authenticity
“I give you Mr and Mrs Jesus Ben Joseph!”
If you have any form of news media that you regularly watch or read it has been impossible to miss the furore over Harvard scholar, Karen King, publishing and discussing the small piece of codex parchment now generally being called The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife. As with all things in the non-specialist media, the claims … Read More →
Love Constraining
The story is told of the middle-aged business man, a straight-laced and sober guy never seen out of a pair of trousers and a shirt, coming home from a week at work to announce to his wife of 25 years, “You bore me. I’m leaving.” Taking to a life of reckless driving, hard drinking, and … Read More →
Church Authentic?
He opened the letter, somewhat gingerly, and unfolded the pristine paper. Gazing at the hand-written text, so unusual and almost unfamiliar in the digital age, he knew already that this would be a letter from a concerned Christian. The words were well meant, as ever they were from the person in question, but they did … Read More →