The original term was “liberal international order” (LIO) used by John Ikenberry in the 1990s, the LIO came in the wake of the apparently US-led victory in the Cold War. The LIO was about supposedly free international trade in the “new world order” that followed the fall of communism. American governments sought to initiate international … Continue reading THE FAST DISAPPEARING AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL DICTATORSHIP AND THE RBIO – A CHRISTIAN NATION?

There is a lot of complaining and virue-signalling amongst Orthodox and traditionalist Roman catholics about the closure of churches by government decree. For a start there is a great difference between a government for the good of all the people, decreeing that all places of public gathering including churches should be closed, and a Church … Continue reading THE PRESENT FORCED CHANGES IN OUR LIVES

Every Christmas, the same old historical mistakes re-appear and need to be corrected yet again. So let us, start at the beginning: Joseph and his sons (by a previous marriage) were in effect, a house-building firm. It was customary for all Jewish boys, no matter what they were, to have a trade which they could … Continue reading THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST

In our secularist institutions, where we work and socialise, our hope as Christians is, however quietly, regarded by our fellow workers as ridiculous – insofar as they have any idea about it – or care for that matter. Many Christians simply don't mention it for fear of ridicule. Our hope is indeed foolishness to the … Continue reading CHRISTIAN HOPE

  When Anak Krakatau (the great Indonesian island volcano) exploded in 2018, it had a huge eruption cloud that climbed eleven miles into the sky and which then levelled out into the classic anvil shape familiar from meteorological thunderstorms in the tropics. When the wall of the volcano failed, it allowed seawater to come into … Continue reading SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP?

  You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is begotten. You shall not covet the things … Continue reading THE DIDACHE, THE TEACHING OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES (circa AD60)

If you are one of the many, many people who are undecided about God, or inclined to follow Richard Dawkins, or who just don't think anything can be proved, I'd suggest that you go and read the article elsewhere in here called “The Universe and Everything and All That”. Then when you've done that and … Continue reading THOUGHTS OF THE HEREAFTER

The problem for most of us who live in the urban environment is that we have no way of daily escaping into the natural world which was the spiritual respite and renewal of the Celtic fathers. They drew on the divine origin and indwelling of all creation. To them there was no strict division between … Continue reading THE CELTIC WAY

Most people in the western world today know nothing of the existence of God. In Britain around half the population, when questioned state that they believe in God. But out of the sixty million people here, maybe at best, one and a half million turn up at church. The rest somehow think that merely intellectually … Continue reading EXCITEMENT

The Orthodox Church, is dependent entirely upon revelation and as such her real theologians are not academics at all, but rather the great experiencers of God. Hence when we have academic clergy presuming to pronounce on the faith, from their height of academe, I would counsel the faithful to run away from them. Orthodoxy, unlike … Continue reading EXPERIENCING GOD