Author: Henry Morgan
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50. Consciousness: Some interesting questions
October 2017 [1] I am very aware that I have only a limited control over my mind, my inner life often seems to have a ‘mind of its own’. Why does a memory suddenly pop up in my mind when there has been no conscious trigger for it to do so? Why do I get these occasional…
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49. Consciousness: An Introduction
October 2017 Who am I? I can answer that by giving you my name, age and nationality. I could supply my contact details and let you have a photograph. You could follow me round and see where I sleep and eat; with whom I spend my time; the clothes I wear and how I look; you…
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48. The Cosmic Christ
October 2017 I’d like to share some thoughts arising from the Cosmic Christ of Whom I wrote in ‘Which Jesus’. John in the opening chapter of his Gospel writes of Jesus as the Word of God Who ‘was with God at the beginning, through Whom all things came to be; without Him no created being came…
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47. Beauty
September 2017 Some years ago, in 2011, I read an article in the summer edition of the National Trust Magazine, by the philosopher A. C. Grayling, on Beauty. He was writing primarily about natural beauty, but went on to say that: “There is beauty in ideas, in the effects of sound (think of music, laughter, falling…
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46. An ‘Other World’ 2
September 2017 I had a synchronistic moment in a bookshop in Sheffield this summer. I had a book token and was browsing. I noticed a book by an author I’d recently enjoyed and thought I’d get it, but continued browsing and having picked up a couple of other books went back to the one that…
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45. An ‘Other World’ 1
September 2017 A friend of mine is embarking upon a sabbatical, I say ‘embarking’ quite deliberately as he is taking his sabbatical on his narrowboat, sailing the rivers and canals of England. I went into Worcester yesterday evening to see him and to wish him well as he prepared to set off. I left my car…
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44. Which Jesus….a further thought
September 2017 I have mostly found the idea of The Trinity quite easy to understand. As I think of it, it contains three aspects of the same thing. This is not an unfamiliar concept: I am one person, but everybody who encounters me will encounter a slightly different face, and some quite different faces. The…
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43. Which Jesus…
September 2017 People in church circles often talk about Jesus as if it’s perfectly obvious who they are referring to, but increasingly I find myself wanting to ask ‘which Jesus are you talking about?’ I know that my question will baffle them: ‘there’s only one Jesus’ they will reply, and of course in one sense they…
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42. Church and Sexuality
February 2017 In February the House of Bishops published an official report for the church on sexuality, after three years of ‘shared conversations’ with the LGBT community & other Christians. It maintained the position that marriage in church should remain the lifelong union of a man & woman, and that services should not be held…
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41. Prophetic Bishops not
February 2017 The Guardian newspaper on the 12th February reported a comment from the Archbishop of Canterbury about the new President of the USA: ‘Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said this month that Trump’s policies could have disastrous outcomes. “Policies that are based in fear rather than confidence and courage and Christian values of hospitality,…
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