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This happened to the wife of the old vicar where I used to live. In her youth she had a severe and debilitating back pain, and found herself, rather against her wishes, at a healing service. She was dreading being made into a "healing victim". When the healer identified her to be healed she...

Mind you - having said that, there is a lovely meditation technique I read and have used where you become aware of everything around you seeing you. This can start off with passing birds etc and ends with the air tasting you and smelling you. Soon your edges begin to blur and you start to lose...

It was going OK until around point 7 then it all started to unravel. Concepts are handles we make by separating off bits of perceived reality in order to think with them. To these concepts we give words. Concepts are simply a way of handling what makes sense to us. You know that old thing about...

Daft question Joe. We all can resist his will. We picked the fruit, remember? VC

The trouble is, Brian, I don't think it was respectful. Suppose he was in Kuwait and was introduced to a senior Kuwaiti diplomat and his wife, would he ask this man's wife "respectfully" to unveil? I doubt it. By making his request he is making an implied criticism of the culture in which...

And yet if we are to have eternal life then it follows that we have always had eternal life. Eternal goes both ways. And if St Paul is right that we are living the new life of the risen Christ, that we are the body of Christ, then we are in some way Christ. There is more subtlety to be had...

What an uplifting discussion. Thank you Taijaisi and Thomas. Yes Christ quoted Scripture, but then so did the Scribes and Pharisees that he denounced. The difference is that he quoted to reveal the deeper underlying truths, rather than the formal superficial words. That is our challenge too...

I heard that BA allowed Sikhs and Muslims to where turbans and headscarves, but do not allow Christians to wear crucifixes. Surely the question is - What is it to them? Does it interfere with their employees' work? If not, then why make unnecessary demands? At least in Britain, we are not...

It would not be accurate to say my views represent those of all Christians. Far from it. There are many with the same approach as you - that everything written in the Bible stands for all time. Others, like myself argue that when the world changes and our religion does not change, the religion...

Fair enough Wil. Credit where it's due. I am not one of those who can't accept that capitalists can ever do good. But that still doesn't make the veneration of greed a good thing. If we all nurtured and cared for one another there would be no need for these houses or any of the other first-aid...

Hmm. I don't see a straight choice between service/grace and learning/growing. Surely these can be combined - but it's up to everyone to find their own way. Not everyone can be a saint. As for your philanthropists, they are not my heroes. There is a difference between creating wealth and...

I can't see where you're coming from Shadow. St Paul said "Choose life". We have got the choice by the grace of God. But it's up to us to choose wisely. We in the West have a hard choice. We can't serve God AND money, but money IS the god of the West. What we have to be is subversive, and not...