Science & Faith
Science and God
CURIOUS As I see it, modern science began at the time of the Renaissance, that renewal of learning and expanding of European civilization; the discovery of printing, the discovery of the Americas, and technological advance. A thinker like...
That Risky Bible
CURIOUS So your life as a Christian has a sense of surety and permanence and at the same it is risky. How do these things make sense together? EAGER: Remember how you started off by doubting that God has a Plan for me? CURIOUS Yes, and I...
A Seeker and Science
CURIOUS. When we last talked I seem to have got off on the wrong foot with you. I was not trying to hassle you, or talk you into a corner. EAGER: It was a little scary. What were you trying to do? CURIOUS My folks were people who talked much...
Does God have a Plan for Me?
A Conversation between EAGER and CURIOUS. EAGER: You know, I think God has a Plan for me. CURIOUS. What do you mean, a Plan? EAGER: Well, He directs my life, since I accepted the Lord Jesus as my Saviour. I see signs of God...
On His Birthday
Christmas Dialogue Sermon, first preached by Lesley Barclay and Graham Cotter at Trinity Church Colborne, Ontario. the song, Don’t Wait For An Angel, was written with music by Caryl Micklem and published in New Christian. The song was...
The Fool and the Comedy
About ten years ago, there appeared after a church a cake, inscribed: “Graham, 40 years a Fool for Christ!” - my fortieth anniversary of ordination! In the first letter to the Corinthians, St Paul describes the preaching of Christ crucified...
The Labyrinth of Life
Labyrinths are found in many places today: they are usually circular or spiral patterns, with many turns and a centre, and they are for meditative walking. They may be mown in grass or solidified in cement. The most popular form has 11...
Hitchin’ my Way to Hitchen’s
“It’s about walking with them on the journey. That’s where we meet God.” Bishop Michael Bird is quoted in the December issue of the Anglican Journal. I opened the Journal just as in a kind of retreat I had heard Bishop Gordon Light describe...
Turning and Reversal
During the week around November 15 I found myself on the edge of two raging controversies in Northumberland County, Ontario.The one was an upsurge of controversy focused on Port Hope. An anti-nuclear voice of long standing, that of Dr Helen...
Forgiving and Being Forgiven
I was preaching: Luke Chapter Six verse 29: “To him that smiteth thee on the one cheek, offer also the other”. A teen age voice rang out: “What jerk said that?” The sermon was about forgiveness, and it had a good beginning in this remark!...
Giving and Receiving
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” This is one of the Equations of Love - but is it an equation? It is true that there are traditions of never receiving a gift unless something, even a token penny, is given in return. And there...
Covenant and Equation
I started life with affectionate parents: one liked to talk science and history, the other gave me prayer, religion, and art appreciation. So when in mid-life I chose to research science in its relation to theology, I already was experienced...