Category: Faith stuff
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Hymn of the day
Another of Charles Wesley’s hymns. I don’t think I’ve ever sung this one, but it is a fine statement of Christian hope in a time of bereavement.
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Hymn of the day
One of Charles Wesley’s best known hymns today
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With all your mind?
Kim Fabricius argues that learning and scholarship are not the enemies of faith
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On reading the Bible
How we read the Bible is very often at the heart of the issue when Christians disagree. I offer a few guidelines on how I think the Bible is best approached.
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Hymn of the Day
This is not one of Mr Wesley’s that I’ve ever sung, but I think it should be! I can’t tell you what tune it would have been set to, but it goes nicely to ‘Amsterdam’
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Thoughts at St Govan’s Chapel
This is St Govan’s Chapel, set almost at the bottom of a sea cliff on the Pembrokeshire coastline. It dates from the twelfth century, but is reputed to be on the site of a sixth century hermitage. The origins of the place are lost in myth, but it has long been (and remains) a place…
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Excuse me, is this the right room for an argument?
There is more to an argument than just shouting opposite points of view.
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Hymn of the day
Chareles wasn’t the only hymn-writing Wesley brother. John wrote a few of his own, though nowhere near as many. Here is one of them.
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Hymn of the day
This is the hymn that Isaac Watts is reputed to have said he wished he had written. The version by Maddy Prior and The Carval Band is my favourite recording, so I’m including that. No one would sing all these verses anymore!