Starting to play GURPS has revealed an issue that a lot of roleplaying games take away from the players: you have to choose a power level. In GURPS terms, this is the starting number of Character Points the GM gives to players when they are making their characters. For neophytes, GURPS Basic Set seems to … Read More →
I clearly remember sitting in my parents’ front room cheering on the vote in favour of women’s ordination to the priesthood. At the time I was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland, and women had been accepted as clergy in that denomination for a couple of decades before this momentous vote in the … Read More →
It had been an organised trip for priests still completing their initial years of training, or in their first, post-training parish. A group of us were sitting on the veranda of the retreat complex in which we were staying, and the topic turned to hymns we didn’t like (for whatever reasons, we didn’t like these … Read More →
As a thought experiment, mostly linked to a piece of fiction that I have been drafting, the question of how to go about eradicating religion has been upon my mind. So… how would you go about it?* Erm… First Of All, Why Bother? Let me turn to the eminent voice of Atheism in the 21st … Read More →
