by James Gordon | Feb 22, 2016 | Opinion
You could be forgiven for thinking that the late poet R.S. Thomas was a Luddite, a hater of technology and the mechanization of life. The machine is manufactured, and Thomas, who died in September 2000 at the age of 87, was deeply fearful of what “man”...
by James Gordon | Jan 8, 2016 | Opinion
There was a time when I found a rant satisfying. It was a cathartic putting right of the world, or at least a therapeutic binge of self-expression that, even if it didn’t persuade others, made me feel a lot better. If I were to revert to the rant as default...
by James Gordon | Dec 23, 2015 | Opinion
The story of Jesus turning water into wine is one of the great surprise moments of John’s Gospel. John’s word for those surprise moments is “sign.” The surprise is only the start. John isn’t trying to pique our curiosity, like the clever...
by James Gordon | Dec 1, 2015 | Opinion
I’ve preached a lot of sermons on or around the theme of love – love of God and love of neighbor. But I’ve never preached on hate. My friend, Stuart Blythe, rector of International Baptist Theological Study Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands, raised...
by James Gordon | Nov 19, 2015 | Opinion
A.J. Heschel wrote 50 years ago about how to assess culture and society, and he is more right now than he was even then. “A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old,” he said. “It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a...
