Marriage – equal?
I’ve been happily married for 25 years this year. What have I learnt that I can share with you? PICTURE: Ryan Franco/Unsplash You have to marry your equal. Your best friend. And you have to see them as that. Now, of course you’re not actually equal. You’re taller, she’s smarter. You’re stronger, she’s more caring. […]
Only one per cent of British Christians believe God is female, survey finds
Only one per cent of British Christians believe God is a woman, according to the findings of a YouGov poll. The poll, which comes in the wake of the release of a new Ariana Grande song God is a Woman, found that the largest proportion of British Christians – 41 per cent – don’t think […]
‘GOD COMPLEX’
The ‘God Complex’ – an unshakable belief in your own importance, resulting in inflated feelings of ability, privilege and corresponding mistreatment of others. A bust of the Roman Emperor Nero. PICTURE: cjh1452000/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Many males in history have had a God complex. Nero, Stalin, Mussolini and, of course, Hitler. What is most ironic, […]
INDEPENDENCE
One of the cosmic ironies of our existence is that we want independence from God. We want God to leave us alone so we can live our own life. Meanwhile, God wants nothing more than for us to become independent, mature adults! PICTURE: Josh Adamski/Unsplash Like all good parents, God’s ultimate desire is for us […]