by Sean Reilly | Feb 1, 2008
In a provocative short article in the International Herald Tribune newspaper, Phillip Blond, who has long been associated with the Cambridge-originated group of scholars exploring a post-modern ‘radical orthodoxy’ school of Christian thought and practice, argues that...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 1, 2008
Christmas and New Year may be a time for giving, but in the political world there’s little room for sentiment, and it has been taking that’s featured on the agenda in recent weeks. Given the noted commitment of party fixers to ‘risk management’, you’d have thought...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 25, 2007
Romans 1.1-7; Psalm 80.1-8, 18-20; Matthew 1.18 – 25. “Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place this way… to fulfil what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: ‘Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel’, which...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
At this time of year those of us who are Christians come to focus on the meaning of a particular birth, and in so doing find ourselves drawn further into the deep mystery, pain and possibility of living and dying on this beautiful but naked planet. Yet most of the...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 19, 2007
This is the text of a speech at an RSA lecture meeting in response to a new booklet from the Humanist Philosophers’ Group, The Case for Secularism: A Neutral State in an Open Society. ——————- As the director of a Christian...