t is almost inconceivable that the King of All That Is should have paid a royal visit to our planet. This little story, oddly reminiscent of Madeleine L’Engle, is from J.B. Phillips’ New Testament Christianity:

Once upon a time a very young angel was being shown round the splendours and glories of the universes by a senior and experienced angel. To tell the truth, the little angel was beginning to be tired and a little bored. He had been shown whirling galaxies and blazing suns, infinite distances in the deathly cold of inter-stellar space, and to his mind there seemed to be an awful lot of it all. Finally he was shown the galaxy of which our planetary system is but a small part. As the two of them drew near to the star which we call our sun and to its circling planets, the senior angel pointed to a small and rather insignificant sphere turning very slowly on its axis. It looked as dull as a dirty tennis-ball to the little angel, whose mind was filled with the size and glory of what he had seen.

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From CollegeHumor. HT: David Ould

ou can find an historical answer by R Scott Clark. I have found this helpful in understanding the origins of the movement. But if you don’t know what the Federal Vision is, please don’t waste your time reading about it!

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n reading old poetry to myself I tend to voice the ‘-th’ at the end of words as in ‘this.’ I find it establishes a pleasing sense of continuity between modern and archaic plurals.

On that note, I came across an interesting quotation this morning–apparently we mispronounce old poetry!

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emember Richard Dawkins, prophet of the new religious atheism and author of The God Delusion? Dawkins has been criticised for his quasi-scientific but definitely ideological advocacy of atheism.

In a thoughtful and interesting article, Melanie Phillips at the Spectator points out that last month in public debate Dawkins observed that “a serious case could be made for a deistic God.” It’s not clear what that means for Dawkins’ debate so far. Admitting past error is likely to be one of the hardest things for a charismatic debater like Dawkins to do. But it will be interesting to see how Dawkins puts together his argument again, this time without simply discounting ‘the God delusion.’

This admission is no doubt in part to Dawkins’ involvement in lively debate with fellow scientists, for example this debate with John Lennox.

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