HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 42 articles in category 'Religion'. Scrapbook for June Jesus shall reign Richard Law UTC 2026-06-01 02:01 Words: 661; reading time: 3 minutes Donald ducks The assassin's bullet missed, but there are consequences. UTC 2024-07-21 08:00 Words: 1,948; reading time: 8 minutes Scrapbook for April St. George's day | Even more site changes | Donald Trump vs. Father Time | Paradise lost | Thought for the Day UTC 2024-04-01 02:01 Words: 1,296; reading time: 5 minutes Scrapbook for March COVID-19 sanity check | Disgusting | Thuggery | New site navigation | Saint Joseph's Day | Can the UK National Health Service cope with COVID-19? | Do not touch me, woman | Two inspectors call | And don't step in the excrement | Country music for the doolally | The Schubert guide to handwashing | Before social media UTC 2020-03-01 02:01 Words: 1,893; reading time: 8 minutes 13 December Saint Lucy's Day What's in a name? From obscure beginnings to theological eminence. Richard Law UTC 2019-12-10 09:12 Words: 9,712; reading time: 44 minutes All Souls' Day 2019 2 November in the words of Rainer Maria Rilke. Richard Law UTC 2019-11-02 14:22 Words: 660; reading time: 3 minutes Isaiah the Obscured Where is he when we need him? Richard Law UTC 2019-04-15 12:43 Words: 5,022; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on 2019-10-30 13 December: Saint Lucy's Day 220 years ago, William Wordsworth sent his 'Lucy' poems to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Richard Law UTC 2018-12-09 08:04 Words: 4,916; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on 2018-12-17 Blasphemy redux The unpleasant face of secular piety. Richard Law UTC 2018-11-06 16:23 Words: 1,407; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on 2019-04-15 13 December: Saint Lucy's Day Johann Peter Hebel's classic story Unverhofftes Wiedersehen, 'The Unhoped-for Reunion'. Richard Law UTC 2017-12-11 08:53 Words: 4,131; reading time: 18 minutes 4 December: Saint Barbara's Day Empirical fact and the triumph of human imagination. Richard Law UTC 2017-12-05 17:07 Words: 2,923; reading time: 13 minutes Updated on 2017-12-13 Beyond analysis Geertgen tot Sint Jans' painting Geboorte van Christus / Nativity at Night. Richard Law UTC 2016-12-23 12:22 Words: 637; reading time: 2 minutes Rolling noiselessly through the void A meditation upon Saint Lucy's day, data adjusted. Richard Law UTC 2016-12-21 10:14 Words: 319; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for November Envy-of-the-World™ – again | Snowflakes of the Month | Back to the palace | Pointless polling | North gets it – not really | Nigel Farage | Trump: change and hopes | FoS website restructured | All Saints' and All Souls' Days 2016 | Emailing for dummies UTC 2016-11-01 02:01 Words: 2,049; reading time: 9 minutes Scrapbook for October More intimations of mortality | Alan Turing, useful genius | Dismantling Hillary | Aberfan: a tale of two inquiries | Matt Ridley: Global Warming versus Global Greening | Snowflake of the Month | A grave question | More Waugh | The plague of politics | Intimations of mortality | Mummy knows best | Looking over your shoulder | Spare the rod UTC 2016-10-01 02:01 Words: 2,553; reading time: 11 minutes Bible studies Short meditation for Sunday 2 October involving the Bible, that essential book for atheists. Oh… and that other book. Richard Law UTC 2016-10-02 11:04 Words: 1,258; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2016-10-25 Scrapbook for August The Fall of Man, not quite | Democratic accident | Nice binary dates | Swiss birthnames in 2015 | 'Deep Insight of the Month' award | Sledghammer vs. dagger… | The official mind | Snowflake of the Month UTC 2016-08-01 02:01 Words: 1,905; reading time: 8 minutes The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism One reason among many for the decline and fall of the Habsburg Empire. [9 pages] Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:40 Words: 11,188; reading time: 50 minutes On your own The three pillars of the Protestant revolution: salvation by faith alone, through Christ alone and through scripture alone. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:41 Words: 755; reading time: 3 minutes The calling Do your best with what you are given: the importance of the 'calling'. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:42 Words: 682; reading time: 3 minutes The elect Are you one of the elect? Prove it, particularly to yourself. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:43 Words: 938; reading time: 4 minutes The heavenly balance sheet The cycle of redeemable sin compared with the fixed plan of virtuous action. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:44 Words: 615; reading time: 2 minutes Rewards on earth and in Heaven Irresistable grace will bring the rewards of Earthly life. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:45 Words: 934; reading time: 4 minutes For the greater glory of God: Benjamin Franklin The servant of the Calvinist God follows a programme of self-improvement. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:47 Words: 2,026; reading time: 9 minutes The trivial round, the common task The beneficial effect of work in pursuit of the 'calling'. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:48 Words: 723; reading time: 3 minutes Work: unpleasing to God Work if you have to, but not too hard. It might even be better to live on your own in a cave for a few years. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:49 Words: 1,057; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for March Tears: an instrument of foreign policy | Wasting police time | Headline of the year award | Rigour, not mortis | Geography made easy | The god of the forest | Hyacinth time | Swiss referendum updates | The Dohlen are here! UTC 2016-03-01 02:01 Words: 750; reading time: 3 minutes Lenten thoughts, newly assembled As Christians come to the end of Lent, a period of self-denial and reflection, we ask the question: is it good not to spend money? Richard Law UTC 2016-03-18 19:17 Words: 1,023; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2016-03-24 Montségur, 16 March 1244 The ashes of the 'Friends of God'. [5 pages] Richard Law UTC 2016-03-04 07:10 Words: 6,580; reading time: 29 minutes The Cathars, the 'Friends of God' Recovering the traces of an obliterated monastic order. Richard Law UTC 2016-03-04 07:11 Words: 1,213; reading time: 5 minutes The Albigensian crusade The terrible crusade against its own people and the royal conquest of the Languedoc. Richard Law UTC 2016-03-04 07:12 Words: 1,159; reading time: 5 minutes The community under siege The siege of the hilltop fort of Montségur. Eight months of resistance until the attackers found the fatal flaw in the defenses. Richard Law UTC 2016-03-04 07:13 Words: 1,867; reading time: 8 minutes The crowned knot of fire The fiery end of the 'Friends of God' on Montségur and the obliteration of the movement. Richard Law UTC 2016-03-04 07:14 Words: 1,551; reading time: 7 minutes Montségur: video materials Selected video materials about Montségur. Richard Law UTC 2016-03-04 07:15 Words: 124; reading time: 1 minute Fidei defensor Defender of the faith: The Christmas message of the second in line to the British throne. Richard Law UTC 2015-12-06 16:31 Words: 113; reading time: 1 minute Engaging God: God help us! After the atrocities in Paris, Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, 'engages God' on a walk. What have we done to deserve this? Richard Law UTC 2015-11-22 08:09 Words: 873; reading time: 3 minutes All Souls' Day, 2 November Some thoughts for All Souls' Day, 2 November on the Litany for All Souls' Day of Johann Georg Jacobi, set to music by Franz Schubert. Richard Law UTC 2015-11-02 10:12 Words: 1,730; reading time: 7 minutes All Saints' Day, 1 November Some thoughts for All Saints' Day, 1 November on the painting La Toussaint by the French artist Émile Friant. Richard Law UTC 2015-11-01 10:12 Words: 1,104; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2018-10-03 Transitioning to November Whatever happens, don't mention the H-word! We offer an alternative for those damaged. Richard Law UTC 2015-10-28 10:11 Words: 422; reading time: 1 minute Celestial advice There is always room for helpful celestial advice when things don't seem to be going your way. Richard Law UTC 2015-10-09 14:07 Words: 44; reading time: 1 minute Jeannot in church A contribution from a member of the French branch of our therapy group for the liturgically damaged. Richard Law UTC 2015-10-03 11:24 Words: 635; reading time: 2 minutes Tests of faith, the lunatic's friends Two ancient stories about belief, lunacy, faith and other quite important things. Richard Law UTC 2015-09-30 16:05 Words: 1,362; reading time: 6 minutes
