Tag: jesus

Kindness is a strange enough quality I think. It is a word with duplicity born in its origins. To be ‘kind’ in truth is to be informed about ‘unkindness’ to those who are in truth still your kind. This blog reflects on Jeremy Corbyn, Never Gordon and Shahd Hammouri (2026) ‘The Gaza Tribunal: Britain’s Complicity in Genocide’.

September 1, 2026

What’s the kindest thing someone has ever done for you? Ikram Talaat Ahmed teaches displaced children in Gaza from https://afsc.org/news/courage-and-kindness-amid-loss-gaza Kindness is a strange enough quality I think. It is a word with ll its duplicity born in its origins, as Shakespeare noticed when he gives the following dialogue, in a crowded scene (Act 1 … More Kindness is a strange enough quality I think. It is a word with duplicity born in its origins. To be ‘kind’ in truth is to be informed about ‘unkindness’ to those who are in truth still your kind. This blog reflects on Jeremy Corbyn, Never Gordon and Shahd Hammouri (2026) ‘The Gaza Tribunal: Britain’s Complicity in Genocide’.

Making your mark from the offset: the fallacy of control. This blog is a reflection on Benjamin Myers’ new work, ‘Jesus Christ Kinski: A Novel about a Film about a Performance about Jesus’.

November 8, 2025

Making your mark from the offset: the fallacy of control. This blog is a reflection on Benjamin Myers’ new work, ‘Jesus Christ Kinski: A Novel about a Film about a Performance about Jesus‘. A quiet man reflects on a loud one, whose mouth is full of hubristic pretension and loudly scored swear words. How does … More Making your mark from the offset: the fallacy of control. This blog is a reflection on Benjamin Myers’ new work, ‘Jesus Christ Kinski: A Novel about a Film about a Performance about Jesus’.

‘Be near me’: A good neighbour is one of those near to me who are willing to be still closer.

October 7, 2025

‘Be near me’: A good neighbour is one of those near to me who are willing to be still closer. I will keep the English spelling of neighbour that is not used in the prompt question, that question having come from the United States who dropped the ‘u’ in words ending ‘-our’ long ago. However, … More ‘Be near me’: A good neighbour is one of those near to me who are willing to be still closer.

‘Ecce Homo!’ To ‘have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, …’. He changed me.

December 9, 2024

Caravaggio’s Ecce Homo (1605) available via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_homo Let Wikipedia have the first word of explanation of my choice of title: Ecce homo! (this links to the full Wikipedia article). And let this happen before I justify, as a non-believer and atheist, the choice of the Christian tradition (and in particular, that of the High Anglican … More ‘Ecce Homo!’ To ‘have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, …’. He changed me.