Author: Peter Ruddock

I am, first and last, just human. Although some may dispute that, I have done tests and it is true. I am Christian. God saw how badly I needed grace, how little I deserved it, and was gracious anyway. For that, I owe him my all. My wife is a truly beautiful person, in every way, and my son is my joy. By profession I am a teacher, although teaching is more than just a job to me. My life metaphor sees life as a battle. Every day, a war rages for our hearts. I see my job as a soldier, fighting to help people regain their lost hearts. My primary battlefield is the classroom. I support Crystal Palace Football Club with a faithfulness that the club does not always reciprocate. I love football. I love books, films and poetry. I love good food and good wine. They will probably carve "Hansa, please" on my tombstone. I love nature. I love art. I love sport. I love games - especially chess and Magic the Gathering. I love '80s Christian Metal and I love the music of Haydn and Mozart. I am constantly appalled at the depths to which humans can sink. Myself included. I am constantly inspired by the beauty of people's selfless acts. Myself included. I believe that life is short. We spend too much time chasing the wind, looking for happiness in fleeting things, when the only true joy and fulfilment comes from serving a purpose higher and bigger than our lives. And even then, only when we give it our all. Give sacrificially.

Pesky Philistines and the Trouble with Chariots

I want to repost this as a supplement to the latest post. It will save me repeating the argument later.

Vapors In The Wind

I am painfully aware that to many of my fellow Christians, especially those who have walked some way along life’s road with me, my rejection of the inerrancy of Scripture and of a Penal Substitution understanding of atonement has seemed like an abandonment of my faith. I also realise that many take my criticisms of certain theological positions quite personally. And I need to warn such readers that this post might well be received in that way. But here is what I wish they would see: I reject these doctrines not because I am rejecting God, nor because I intend to insult those who see God through the lenses of those doctrines, but because these doctrines (the doctrines, independent of the people who hold them) are not worthy of God. I am not rejecting God, but inferior ways of seeing God, and even then, not on a personal level, but…

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Mrs God and Cleaning the Toilet

The paradigms through which we engage the world shape the questions we are able to ask, and limit the truths we are able to see. Mostly our paradigmatic frameworks are invisible to us, and so we accept as normal and real the worlds with which we are presented. If you are a 21st Century Protestant... Continue Reading →

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