Tag Archives: Christianity

THE PRESENT OPPORTUNITY

Posted on 12/10/2025 by Scott Anderson

A PRESENTATION IN PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MASS CELEBRATED ACCORDING TO DIVINE WORSHIP – THE MISSAL OF THE ORDINARIATES With the creation of the Ordinariates for receiving Anglicans into the full communion of the Catholic Church, together with the publication of … Continue reading →

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Puritans and Protestants

Posted on 26/08/2025 by Scott Anderson

“The truth is that the English puritan’s crusade against all forms of sensuous beauty in worship has had more effect than we realise upon our notion of the worship of the primitive church. It disconcerts us to find that that … Continue reading →

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Losing out on the Trinity

Posted on 04/06/2025 by Scott Anderson

Am I right? I think I’ve noticed both among liberals and, surprisingly, Evangelicals, a move away from the orthodox belief in God as Trinity to Arianism – God, Jesus and the Spirit. A few weeks ago the Sunday Service from … Continue reading →

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Original sin

Posted on 07/05/2025 by Scott Anderson

The Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner MP, spoke recently at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. She asserted her belief in the fundamental goodness of human beings. This was a brave thing to do at the site of … Continue reading →

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The Evangelicals

Posted on 11/12/2024 by Scott Anderson

I was brought up – prepared for Confirmation and confirmed – in an Evangelical parish of the Church of England. Catholics, even those who know the C of E well, are often puzzled that within the National Church there can … Continue reading →

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Is the Pope a Catholic?

Posted on 08/11/2024 by Scott Anderson

People who ask why I became a Catholic usually assume it is because I don’t approve of women priests. Certainly the decision by a majority in the General Synod of the Church of England to permit the ordination of women … Continue reading →

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Death – the enemy we need to face up to

Posted on 24/10/2024 by Scott Anderson

In my last year as a parish priest in France I was twice asked to preside over funerals where the cremation of the body had already taken place. No funeral directors attended, and the family arrived with the urn or … Continue reading →

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Baseball – and the Religious Life

Posted on 18/03/2024 by Scott Anderson

In the age we live in the combination of two words ‘Orphanage’ and ‘Catholic’ is enough to conjure up a dark vision of cruelty and abuse. So it was refreshing to read Bill Bryson’s account of one such orphanage in … Continue reading →

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Fifty years on from the closure of Kelham

Posted on 22/02/2024 by Scott Anderson

I am indebted to Anne Malins who e-mailed me the article from the Church Times by Bishop Christopher Morgan on Kelham – which closed as a Theological College of the Church of England fifty years ago. I have sometimes claimed … Continue reading →

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The curious case of the Scottish First Minister

Posted on 03/04/2023 by Scott Anderson

The campaign to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister of the devolved Scottish Parliament provoked storms of ‘Christianophobia’. (I know the word doesn’t exist because the media et al. do not want to recognise it. ‘Islamophobia’ – ‘Homophobia’ – ‘Transphobia’ … Continue reading →

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