BlogHide Resteemsdouglasknight (25)in energy • 10 months agoEnergy and independenceThere are just two issues, one material, the other moral. The material issue is energy. There isn’t enough energy to power the economy we want. Our energy supply has not been meeting our…douglasknight (25)in gods • 3 years agoNaming the PowersOur contemporaries have an addiction to power. They have isolated power from the question of for whom and for what purpose is it exercised? We can help by naming for them the powers that they have…douglasknight (25)in economy • 3 years agoWhat is going to happen next?Our society is in the dark about one great issue. Its own continuance. It fears that if its standard of living falls, society itself will fall. This is the publicly unsayable thought which paralyses…douglasknight (25)in god • 3 years agoAdvent 1 Luke 25 Psalm 53At that time they will see the Son of Man coming upon a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your head because your redemption is drawing…douglasknight (25)in covid • 3 years agoCovid CoupThe covid coup is of course an intelligence test. The fool does not question. The sceptical recoil from such insultingly blatant lies. It reveals the divide. On the one hand are those who, battered…douglasknight (25)in worship • 3 years agoChristianity helps you seeChristianity helps you see. You may have noticed that not everybody wants you to see because then you can see what they are doing and can challenge them. They prefer it if you have just a restricted…douglasknight (25)in gospel • 4 years agoIn 2021 the Church follows the Gospel of MarkIn 2021 the Church follows the Gospel of Mark. Let us look at the themes that appear in the earlier chapters of Mark The beginning of everything that God sent his Son into the world. This Son…douglasknight (25)in freedom • 4 years agoFreedom and powerThe west, and in particular the US, is failing for two very simple reasons: It lacks sound money. From this very simple fact flows 100% of America's many and sundry political, financial, and…douglasknight (25)in freedom • 4 years agoPeople willingly surrender their freedomFormer UK Supreme Court judge Lord Jonathan Sumption (BBC Radio 4 interview March 30): ‘The real problem is that when human societies lose their freedom, it’s not usually because tyrants have…douglasknight (25)in finance • 5 years agoWhat's happening to us?This is going to be a very difficult year. The coronavirus and the return of the credit crisis are two immediate reasons for this. Last year it was obvious that the financial markets were in crisis…douglasknight (25)in mastery • 5 years agoSelf-MasteryChristianity makes you master of yourself. You are no longer taken in by manipulative people who want to control you. You stop being gullible. The gospel tells us that each one of us can truly…douglasknight (25)in debt • 5 years agoThe faithless generation that destroyed the hopes of its own childrenThe Church in this country has not realised how conditions have changed, and that what was once good has now become destructive. Government and the welfare state were the outworking of Christian…douglasknight (25)in cults • 5 years agoTwo CultsGospel gives us a prospect. Ahead lie opportunities. The future may be bigger than the present. More may be expected of us. We may look forward and be expectant, and so we are prepared to wait for…douglasknight (25)in sexual • 5 years agoSexual differenceWe Christians know that enmity is not the fundamental force of creation. Love is fundamental. The love of God motivates all creatures that God calls into existence. They are called into a communion…douglasknight (25)in love • 5 years agoTo adopt the conceptuality of rights is to discard the conceptuality of love and responsibilityThe woman is told (by the serpent) to consider the man as her rival, as the one who makes her a victim rather than as her companion. At the moment she listens, she starts her flight from love into…douglasknight (25)in sexual • 5 years agoSexual differenceThe Powers-that-Be want to abolish sexual difference and all the mutuality that it allows, so we no longer think of ourselves as men or women. They want us to think of ourselves simply as individual…douglasknight (25)in gospel • 5 years agoDistinguishing the true from the false GospelAs we grasp the gospel we realise that there is also a rival to it. Whatever is good and valuable attracts emulators and copies. There is a look-alike gospel, a rival gospel. And the rival gospel…douglasknight (25)in state • 5 years agoToo muchWhy are you so suspicious about the intentions of the government? What have you got to hide? We have to reply that it is they, the government and its apologists, who are doing the hiding. They are…douglasknight (25)in man • 6 years agoMen and WomenThe Transsexual phenomenon is an attack on man and woman. The truth of man – and of any male – is that he can and may serve a woman. And she may allow herself to be served, and to wait until she is…douglasknight (25)in state • 6 years agoChurch and StateThe state is the ‘state of affairs’, the way things are. It is the situation in we live. It is this arrangement and the attitudes and institutions that secure it. It is this arrangement we have…