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Death
I was saddened to hear of the death yesterday (9 September 2024) of James Earl Jones, probably best known across the world as the voice of Darth Vader, the looming, ominous antagonist of the original trilogy of Star Wars movies from the 1970s and 1980s. Apart from the resonance and authority evident from his distinctive… Continue reading Death of James Earl Jones
As we pass through 2024, and human society continues recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to wage war on each other—both literally and metaphorically. In eastern Europe and western Asia, amongst other places, people continue to kill and destroy. Even in regions that are ostensibly at peace, crimes and injustices continue at various levels.… Continue reading Easter 2024
We are now a little over three years on from the time the COVID-19 virus really started making an impact on human society across the world. In many cases, life has essentially returned to the way it was before, albeit with public health precautions now more at the forefront of our minds. We are now… Continue reading Easter 2023
After a long life and a very long reign in modern human terms, Queen Elizabeth II died yesterday. She was a figurehead not just throughout the British Commonwealth, but across the world. By all accounts, she was a diligent and honourable woman, holding her post with distinction. In recent decades, she had also been the… Continue reading Death of Queen Elizabeth II
Easter this year is now two weeks in the past, and at the time I was actually reminded of a Christmas carol: O Holy Night. Part of the second verse, “A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices,” came to mind. It has now been more than two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and… Continue reading Easter 2022
What a remarkable time it has been … a year since my last post, and the world has been going through the COVID-19 pandemic through those months. More than anything else, I have been struck by how blithely we people can go about our business, relatively free from care, and then sovereign God hauls us… Continue reading Easter 2021
This Easter, we find ourselves in the middle of the worldwide COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis. Perhaps now more than ever, in the past few years at least, many people are thinking seriously about life and death, and eternity. The risk of becoming infected with COVID-19 is real, and we need to take the appropriate precautions to… Continue reading Easter 2020
“Why are you here?” A short, simple question, but one that can be read in a few different ways. I would guess that most people have, at some point, asked themselves this question at the deepest, most profound level—”why do I exist?” The Westminster Shorter Catechism begins with a question-answer pair that addresses this question,… Continue reading Easter 2019
Christmas Day is upon us again, and it’s time to reflect on the year that has been. Apart from the normal commitments of work, family, and so on, this year—perhaps more than any other—is one in which I’ve started to see the underlying logic in Biblical theology. The atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ… Continue reading Christmas 2018
Today is another Easter, the day in the Western calendar that traditionally marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This year, Easter falls on the first day of April, which is also in the Western calendar as April Fools’ Day. There are, no doubt, some people who would see a certain irony in… Continue reading Easter 2018