Ben Whitney reads Luke’s Pentecost as a story of a Spirit given to all, overcoming Babel’s division, and proposes ‘a spirit of holiness’ in place of a God ‘up there’.
Ben Whitney describes a dramatised Messiah and argues that Jesus’ death is valuable because it is like other unjust deaths, a call to solidarity, not a sacrificial transaction.
Ben Whitney reviews Robert M Ellis’s The Christian Middle Way, which argues for agnosticism, faith as a way of being rather than belief, and Jesus as following a middle path; the reviewer doubts the case...
Ben Whitney, after the British Museum’s Living with Gods exhibition, argues that humans create their gods, creeds and values, and that a humanist spirituality within Christianity should keep Jesus’s humanity central.
