The New Age

When growing up in the church as a teenager, we learnt what was special about the New Church and its difference with the Old or first Christian Church. We learnt about the importance of the spiritual sense of the Word and the role of charity in our life of religion, that we were not saved by faith …

Simeon is mentioned several times in the Bible. There is Simeon, the second son of Jacob, Simeon, the old man in the Temple at the time of the Lord’s birth, and Simeon a midway ancestor of Christ, and Simon Peter, the leading disciple of Jesus. There is also Samuel or Shemuel, and Simon the Pharisee and Simon …

This article grew out of a remark that we now have two daughters of the Manse heading up major European powers. The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel’s father was a Lutheran Minister and the newly elected British PM, Theresa May’s father was a vicar. Incidentally it is reported that they both attend Church regularly. I am sure …