keeping the heart

“The heart of man is his worst part before it is regenerated, and the best afterward; it is the seat of principles, and the fountain of actions. The eye of God is, and the eye of the Christian ought to be, principally fixed upon it. The greatest difficulty in conversion is to win the heart [...]

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a conversation event

On Tuesday evening I went with a couple of friends to hear Margo MacDonald (the Independent MSP) and Ewan Aitken (Labour councillor and Church of Scotland minister) discuss the “right to die” proposals which Margo is putting forward in Holyrood at the moment.
The format of the evening wasn’t so much a debate, as whatever [...]

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I’m back, and will get round to responding to all the contributions made over the weekend sooner or later. Incidentally, I’ve come back a total convert to the wonders of hyoscine hydrobromide – I was never much of a believer in travel sickness tablets, but this time I was prevailed upon, and the effects of [...]

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weekend away

A couple of things in the news recently, which I’m going to link to for your general information – I’m heading off shortly for a long weekend and don’t expect to be online much till Tuesday.

MSP Roseanna Cunningham wants better palliative care and end-of-life care throughout Scotland

paying for sex with trafficked women will become illegal [...]

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shakespeare vs the AV

Nothing serious, don’t worry – just a wee quiz that I stumbled across earlier today in some random quarter of the blogosphere – how well can you discriminate Shakespeare’s plays from quotations from the Bible?

The Bible or the Bard?

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on revelation

It’s been hanging over me since summer, the fact that I promised to revisit some issues relating to scripture. But now that several attempts to write out something nicely coherent/cohesive have had to be scrapped as miserable failures, I’m only going to flag up the general topic and let anyone who wants to discuss anything [...]

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hfe reply

I wrote my MP about the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (or more accurately, CC’d him into the email we all, I trust, sent to those members of the House of Lords suggested by SPUC).
Today in the post I get this response, reproduced here in its entirety.
Thank you for your e-mail.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology [...]

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book of the week

Dan Everett’s new book, Don’t Sleep There are Snakes is now available in the UK – and it’s been selected to be Radio 4’s Book of the Week for the week of 17th November. That’s all next week, Monday to Friday, at 9.45 to 10am, or else you can listen online for up to a [...]

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a book review

I’m too embarrassed to check how long ago I last added anything to my page supposedly dedicated to book reviews. However, there’s a new review there now. Click on the tab at the top of the page, or else follow this link: Secrets Behind the Burqa, by Rosemary Sookhdeo.

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a public safety issue

Apparently Lord Joffe is making renewed attempts to have assisted suicide legalised (and see a couple of posts ago for similar concerns in the Scottish parliament).
There are of course serious considerations deriving from a commitment to biblical ethics which make it impossible to legalise assisted suicide – but it would be wrong to think that [...]

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