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The Parable of the Sower
This post is a reading of Jesus’ Parable of the Sower ( Gospels of Mark 4:1-9; Matthew 13:1-9; Luke 8:4-8; Thomas 9), mainly drawing on Bernard Brandon Scott’s Hear Then the Parable and John Dominic Crossan’s In Parables. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Environment, Ethics, God, Theology
Tagged allegory, blame, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Parable of the Sower, parables, seed, Sower, suffering
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Couldn’t God have created a world without the coronavirus?
On the limits of what we can expect to know Continue reading
Posted in Environment, God, Science
Tagged coronavirus, God, knowledge, Science, suffering
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Evil, suffering and Christianity
Can Christianity explain why God allows evil and suffering? This is the third in a series of three talks I have been giving on why a good God should allow evil and suffering. The first is here . The second … Continue reading
Evil and suffering, with or without God
This is the text of the second of a series of three talks I’ve been giving at St Brides Liverpool, on the subject of why God allows evil and suffering. The first is here . You can listen to this … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, God, Theology
Tagged evil, God, Jeremy Bentham, Karamazov, suffering, theodicy
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Why does God allow the innocent to suffer?
People have always asked why God allows evil and suffering. It is such a common question that it has a special name, ‘theodicy’. Couldn’t God have created a better world? I am doing a series of 3 Sundays at St … Continue reading