Andrew McFarland Campbell

Graded Objectives in Modern Equality

Back in the early 1990s, I was studying for my GCSEs. The year before I sat my GCSE French exams, I sat another set of exams in French: a NISEAC Graded Objective in Modern Languages. The Graded Objective in French was essentially a GCSE-lite qualification. It was a subset of what GCSE French covered. After […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 7 years ago

Christianity Gay

Gaudy shirts and ill-fitting jeans: a response to Orlando

I’ve had about four hours sleep, and it is largely down to the news from Orlando. On Facebook, I have seen someone comment on PULSE, saying that it was a place where people in “ill-fitting jeans and gaudy shirts” could have a “good time”. Now, I suspect that I know more than most people about […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 7 years agoJuly 26, 2022

Fiction

Biscuits

The biscuit was invented, in 1822, by the famed Georgian architect William Henry Jonathan Arthur Blanchard Biscuit. His invention was completely accidental. In the early 1800s the population was booming, and more houses were needed as a result. Architects everywhere were desperately searching for ways to make the building process faster… Read the rest here.

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 26, 2022

Christianity Gay

Christians and the Conscience Clause

From Faith and Pride… Christian consciences have been a concern since the days of the New Testament. A long time ago, a wise man called Paul the Apostle gave advice to the Christians in Corinth about how to handle their consciences. “I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 8, 2021

Christianity Gay

Equal marriage in Gibraltar

From Faith and Pride… I have had a letter on equal marriage published in the Gibraltar Chronicle. Although I have only lived in Gibraltar for a short time, I have been much struck by the diversity and tolerance shown here. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Bahá’í, people of other faiths, and people of no faith all live […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 26, 2022

Christianity Gay

The Biblical view on being gay and a Christian

From Faith and Pride… And another letter published in the Belfast Telegraph. I take the Bible just as seriously as any other Christian from Northern Ireland. If there were really a single sound-bite verse that could prove that you cannot be gay and Christian, as Good News Messenger seems to think (Writeback, November 17), then […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 9, 2021

Christianity Gay

Remember, some of us are both gay and Christian

From Faith and Pride… I have had another letter on same-sex marriage published in the Belfast Telegraph. IT seems that much of the coverage of the gay marriage cake affair has portrayed it as Christians on one side and gay people on the other. It is too easy for people to forget that some of […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 9, 2021

Christianity Gay

Love the sinner, hate the sin?

From Faith and Pride The adage “love the sinner but hate the sin” is often used in discussions of Christianity and same-sex relationships, usually in a context where someone is saying “I love you, but I hate your sinful relationship”. This is problematic for two reasons, a secondary reason, and a fundamental reason. The secondary […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 9, 2021

Christianity

A Time to Embrace, and a Time to Refrain from Embracing

About this time every year I tend to start thinking about my father. This is partly because it will soon be Fathers’ Day, but it is mainly because it is coming up for the anniversary of his death. When my father was young, younger than I am now, he liked The Seekers, and at some […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 26, 2022

Fiction

Should I try Toblerone?

As of the time of publication I have never eaten a Toblerone. Unfortunately, due to an incident involving multiple amounts of cat vomit, I have no trousers that are both clean and dry, so I can’t leave the flat. Thus I have been pondering the question should I try Toblerone? This is not a simple […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 26, 2022