A reflective essay on the Last Supper as a farewell rather than the founding of a religion. Jesus underestimated the power of the social construct that sustains civilisation — and, like prophets before and after him, paid the price for his honesty.
Month: October 2025
Conserva me Domine, quoniam speravi in te 1. Conserva me, Domine, quoniam speravi in te. Preserve me, O Lord, for I have trusted in thee. Notes: 2. Dixi Domino: Deus meus es tu, quoniam bonorum meorum non eges. I have said to the Lord: Thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my …
The outcry over Canterbury Cathedral’s graffiti-style installation reveals more than a clash of taste. It points to a deeper anxiety about how ancient sacred spaces can speak to the modern world. The real issue is not art but meaning — whether the Church still trusts the Gospel itself to renew hearts without resorting to novelty.
While the public argues about chatbots and digital art, artificial intelligence has quietly crossed a threshold: it no longer merely assists research — it now makes discoveries of its own. From protein folding to mathematics, weather, and medicine, the pace of knowledge has shifted from human time to machine time. The question is no longer whether AI will transform science, but whether humanity can still keep pace with the knowledge it creates.
All great religions begin in fire and end in form. A living experience becomes a creed; a vision becomes a law; awakening hardens into obligation. This is not unique to Christianity but a recurring pattern in the spiritual history of humankind.
A reflective essay on how Isaiah’s compassion, Jesus’ inner kingdom, and the Gnostic idea of the divine spark reveal a long evolution in humanity’s understanding of God — from fear of an external ruler to awareness of the divine within.
A reflection on how Britain’s independent schools and social hierarchies mirror one another—each a compartment where people learn the codes of belonging that keep them exactly where they are.
Once the British working class carried an unspoken code of loyalty, duty, and honour — a moral architecture that gave meaning to lives built on hard labour. Today, that structure has collapsed. What remains is not liberation but loss: a generation cut adrift from purpose, belonging, and hope.
For two thousand years, Western civilisation has lived within a sacred story — one that promised meaning, redemption, and divine justice. Yet as history and reason awaken us from this dream, we begin to see how religion, though born from human longing, became a tool of control as much as a source of hope. To wake is not to despise faith, but to see it clearly — and to begin the moral work of conscious responsibility.
A reflection on how the motorcar reshaped society — from freedom to dependence — and how oil, profit, and poor governance have left our cities congested, polluted, and morally adrift. Includes the tragic tale of Isadora Duncan and a reminder that political detachment — from traffic to homelessness — keeps injustice conveniently out of sight.