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  • Lonely longing

    May 23, 2013 by Matthew Mason

    More Roger Scruton: a perceptive and sensitive analysis of what our pervasive sense of loneliness reveals about us. Remarkable words from someone who, until very recently, was at best agnostic about God’s existence: Human beings suffer from loneliness in every circumstance of their earthly lives. They can be lonely on their own, or lonely in [...]

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  • Resources on same-sex sexuality and gay marriage

    May 22, 2013 by Matthew Mason

    As I’ve read, thought, and written about same-sex sexuality over the past few months, these are some of resources I’ve found helpful, and which I think will be particularly helpful for pastors. I don’t agree with all of them (some of them contradict each other), but they’ve all helped me to clarify my thinking and [...]

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  • Glimpsing the Face of God by Opening Our Mouth and Ears

    May 20, 2013 by Matthew Mason

    In his fascinating and wide-ranging The Face of God,[1] the English philosopher Roger Scruton argues, against popular materialist conceptions of humans, that we must be considered in two distinct ways. We are animals, objects within the world of objects, susceptible to investigation by means of scientific inquiry. But we are also far more. A purely [...]

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