An interesting blog site: History and Spirit

Here's a link to a theological blog site I am beginning to read with some appreciation.

For example, enjoy this...

"Prayer in the Daily Mail

Today's Daily Mail ran with a story about how a hospital nurse who asked an elderly hospital patient if she wanted her to pray for her has been suspended from work and faces the sack. Read more here.

There's a lesson to be learned from this story, although it's certainly not the lesson which the Daily Mail journalists were trying to sell. What they have to say we've heard a thousand times before. Woe is Britain; cherished traditions are falling away; Christianity is persecuted; political correctness runs wild. No, these perennial Daily Mail subjects are not the ones I want to talk about here. What's more interesting is to look at what they're actually trying to defend - whether they know it or not - in this specific instance..."

Comments

[maybaby]

the trouble is that you are not allowed to DO anything anymore in case SOMEONE gets UPSET. and people are getting UPSET about everything. why the family concerned couldn't just say "no thanks" and leave it at that is beyond me. I often see families praying over their children but i cannot join them. still, God knows who is on your heart regardless

[Andrew]

I think that's right. As you go about this important job, I'm sure you say more than a prayer anyway...