Grandad Reflects on Faith, God, Climate & Environment

I awoke from a dream with the words going round in my head….. Your God is too small. In the dream I had somehow been aware of times of need or grief or fear when I had turned to prayer and yet the words came – Your God is too small. God could not be conceived or as merely a personal support or guide or means of finding peace or healing. Then I had noted matters with the family as a whole where I had cried out for help and support – but again the words had come, Your God is too small. God was not just their to look after those I love and worry for. I thought of our community and nation. Times of pandemic and threats of war. And yet the words repeated, Your God is too small. God is not there to fulfil nationalistic pride and desires – to support wone nation against another. I had dreamed of the poverty and starvation and displacement of people around the world. But still the insistent – Your God is too small. God is not just about the human race and its needs and its amazing ab...

 I chose not to publish this in paper form to avoid adding unsold books to the environment so you are free to download and copy Faith and the Concept of God and to use it with acknowledgement. It is not available otherwise and there is no cost involved. Grandad

 I have enjoyed reading the short version of In Touch and it is about right for my old brain. In the last issue there was an interesting comment on Lent, and it contained two things which caught my eye and I thought I could add some additional comment. The first is the correct statement that the temple authorities were concerned for their livelihood but perhaps it goes further. By the time this was written the temple had already been destroyed by the Romans after another insurrection. The temple hierarchy were responsible to the Romans for collecting the taxes and obtained a cut from this but were also expected to keep the population subservient and peaceful. Jesus’s actions and statements threatened this peace and particularly at the time of the Passover remembering the time when the Israelite nation had been freed from the domination of the Egyptian pharaoh it could have stirred up unwelcome nationalism. The couple on the road to Emmaus commented. “we had hoped that he might be...