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Browse the free notes for students, philosophical questions, books on philosophy, religion and ethics, and examples of my travel photography.
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What happened to God? Why does he need to be rescued?
Worth £1.99 / $2.99 to find out?
Can the idea of God can still have meaning in a secular world that rejects the supernatural? Might a positive and critical atheism actually serve to deepen the idea of God as a pointer to reality itself? From East to West, and from the Ancient Greeks to the present day, this is the strange story of two seemingly conflicting ideas and how they impact on one another.
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Exploring the idea of home...
Nietzsche craved the high alps; Heidegger his mountain hut. Where do you go for inspiration?
A place? A person? A career? An aspiration? Something to work towards or escape from? What is 'home' for you? This book asks the most fundamental of all questions: Where do I belong?
Starting with Nietzsche's challenge to find meaning in a directionless universe, it explores the way we map out our personal worlds to create a sense of home.
From the orientation of temples in the ancient Near East, to the danger of being treated as no more than a customer or voter in an atomised world, it examines the importance of personal space and what we do with it.
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Why 'Philosophy and Ethics'?
I believe it is important to explore fundamental existential questions. Who am I? What is the purpose of life? What should I do? How can I find and promote happiness? How should I relate to those around me and the natural world? Such questions are crucial, urgent and universal, whether they are asked from a religious perspective or a secular one.
I take a broadly secular and humanist approach, but have been, at different times, both an ordained Anglican and a practising Buddhist. If you think that's weird, just read 'About Me'!
God and the Great War
In June 1916, two remarkable religious thinkers found themselves on opposite sides of the battle of Verdun; for both the experience was uniquely formative, but they responded to it very differently. It transformed their ideas of God, their careers and their lives.
A German Lutheran chaplain and a French Jesuit stretcher bearer, although separated by only a few hundred yards of mud and barbed wire, tried to cope with, and make sense of, that horror of death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. They – Paul Tillich and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – reflect a century of thinking about religion, politics, humanism, existential angst and the global future.
It's the story of two men and their struggles with religious belief, but also of the whole way in which ideas about God and religion have been shaped and re-shaped during the last hundred years.
Paperback £7.99 / $11.50 | Kindle £1.99 / $2.99
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Brimstone Press - the self-publishing cooperative
My travel photography takes you to some colourful places...
There are some places that stay with you long after your visit. Lower Antelope Canyon is one of them. The colours and swirl of the rock face around and above you is quite stunning. Even if you've already seen many photographs already, there's nothing like making your way along the narrow floor of the canyon, looking up towards blue sky that is sliced into bite-size pieces by the jutting swirls of rock. Did water really achieve all this? Astonishing!
