Tried unjustly, scourged,
humiliated, slapped in the face, and introduced by a sarcastic Pilate -
'Behold, your King!' Maybe it's no wonder that faced with such a king the
religious leaders responded with 'We have no king but Caesar.' Whether they had
recognised Jesus as the true Son of God or not their choice was to bow the knee
to that other son of god - the Roman Emperor.
Choosing power
From the world's view it was
hardly a choice: the leader of the world's only super power or a battered and... Continue reading ...
Posted by Dyfed on Monday, July 11, 2011,
In :
Random
 Confession is good for the
soul and there’s no better time to start than first thing on a Monday morning,
so here goes – I used to read the News of
the World … and enjoy it. Throughout my childhood years my father would buy
it every Sunday and as I grew up to a place where I could read and understand what
I was reading the paper delighted me in so many ways.
Now there’s no doubt that it
has gone bad and deserves the condemnation it has received over the past week
but I have to say Iâ... Continue reading ...
Should a family doctor be free to share his faith with a patient during a consultation? That’s the question considered by the General Medical Council recently as it dealt with a complaint against a GP. Their conclusion was to reprimand the doctor for what he did though he is appealing against the decision claiming that he did no more than he’s done many times before.The details are a little sketchy but the story goes like this. A young man went to see his GP with some medical concern. Aft... Continue reading ...
Posted by Dyfed on Tuesday, May 31, 2011,
In :
Politics
Last week saw a great example of how impotent the world can be in the face of imperial power. It was all the more poignant because of the context – both historical and current – in which the incident took place.
The Business, Innovation and Skills select committee of the House of Commons released its report on the acquisition of the successful British company Cadbury’s by the American conglomerate, Kraft. The committee of MPs were particularly upset that Kraft’s CEO, Irene Rosenfeld, r...
Simon
Cowell, whoever produces Strictly, and the US government have all one thing in
common this week – they face their power being subverted. To be fair to him,
Cowell was very honest when he acknowledged on last night’s XFactor that
there were people trying to wreck his programme by voting for Wagner – someone who
couldn’t carry a tune in an Onya bag. Last night the subversion finally failed,
however, and Wagner l... Continue reading ...
Posted by Dyfed on Monday, July 12, 2010,
In :
Random
Putting someone in prison can be an
upsetting business but it can also feed the power-grabbing side of one’s
personality. I faced these two contrasting emotions a couple of weeks back when
I made a decision – with two other magistrates – to detain a 20 year old for 9
weeks.
The circumstances were simple enough
– this young man had caused criminal damage to a number of cars and had been
sentenced to a community order ... Continue reading ...
Responding to the Roman Catholic
Church’s deeply troubling problems over the abuse of children is
difficult. I do not want to be stirring waters that are not mine to stir.
Neither do I want to say anything that causes more pain to those who have been
hurt. However there is a lesson for all churches to learn from this most
disturbing of episodes and it is to do with power and how it used and abused by
church.
The... Continue reading ...
Posted by Dyfed on Friday, February 19, 2010,
In :
Politics
It’s been a bizarre week in international politics. First, the story that is still gradually being revealed about the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai: now widely thought to have been perpetrated by the Israeli secret service, Mossad. As if that isn’t outrageous enough there is an extra twist in the tail for us in the UK as we hear that those responsible were travelling with British passports. A story worthy of a Bond movie, surely.
And second the rather peculiar visit o... Continue reading ...
Posted by Dyfed on Wednesday, February 10, 2010,
In :
Random
I
see the Church of England is getting into a bit of a stew over gender issues
again – the gender of its leaders that is, and whether women should be
consecrated as bishops. Years have now passed since women were accepted into
the ordained priesthood in the C of E – something I disagreed with then, since
I don’t think men should be ordained into the priesthood either. We’re all
priests in God’s eyes –... Continue reading ...
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