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Pastor, Photographer, Writer. Lover of creation and deeply committed to respecting the image of God in all people.
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Personal website: neilcraigan.com
Photography website: neilcraigan.zenfolio.com/
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September 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Last time I checked I'm pretty sure it was ... 🤔🤪
Last night's episode of NBC's Law and Order SVU couldn't have been more timely. Dealing with the ease of getting a grand jury indictment and then the challenge of proving it in court when ICE starts interfering with a critical witness in the case.
September 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Last night's episode of NBC's Law and Order SVU couldn't have been more timely. Dealing with the ease of getting a grand jury indictment and then the challenge of proving it in court when ICE starts interfering with a critical witness in the case.
I concur, I feel the same way.
It grieves me to see people I’ve known for years (some as far back as the Jesus Movement of the 1970s) seduced by a mean-spirited culture-war Christianity that is but a perverse caricature of the authentic faith formed around Jesus of Nazareth. Yes, it grieves me terribly.
September 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I concur, I feel the same way.
Are we more interested in winning debates or learning?
Debating or Learning? — Human Again: Life in the Image of God share.google/gInQTBSLwJ8l...
Debating or Learning? — Human Again: Life in the Image of God share.google/gInQTBSLwJ8l...
Debating or Learning? — Human Again: Life in the Image of God
Over the last week I’ve watched more of Charlie Kirk’s videos than I have since I first started following his career about eight years ago and it prompted me to think about the difference between deba...
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September 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Are we more interested in winning debates or learning?
Debating or Learning? — Human Again: Life in the Image of God share.google/gInQTBSLwJ8l...
Debating or Learning? — Human Again: Life in the Image of God share.google/gInQTBSLwJ8l...
Who in their right mind is OK with this?
I expecting to hear, "proud boys stand back and stand by" any moment.
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I expecting to hear, "proud boys stand back and stand by" any moment.
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September 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Who in their right mind is OK with this?
I expecting to hear, "proud boys stand back and stand by" any moment.
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I expecting to hear, "proud boys stand back and stand by" any moment.
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Charlie Kirk’s death prompts me to ask, “What is a godly life?” — Human Again: Life in the Image of God share.google/Obf7XsvmfaAV...
Charlie Kirk’s death prompts me to ask, “What is a godly life?” — Human Again: Life in the Image of God
With the murder of the conservative political activist Charlie Kirk earlier this week my social media feed has been full of comments about what a godly man he was and what an ungodly man he was. I thi...
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September 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Charlie Kirk’s death prompts me to ask, “What is a godly life?” — Human Again: Life in the Image of God share.google/Obf7XsvmfaAV...
I did a thing...
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I Became A Citizen of the USA — Human Again: Life in the Image of God
Xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment seems to be on the rise in the world today. Here in the United States we have seen masked, unidentified, men grab people off the streets and bundle them into va...
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September 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I did a thing...
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This is disturbing
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Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.
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September 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is disturbing
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This is more than a little troubling.
This mustn't be normalised.
This mustn't be normalised.
September 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is more than a little troubling.
This mustn't be normalised.
This mustn't be normalised.
The role of the "church" in the bombing of Nagasaki.
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80 Years On: Hiroshima and Nagasaki — Human Again: Life in the Image of God
Have we lost our distinctiveness as God’s people by seeking to fit into this world and the structures of this world? Does fitting in with the culture, or our national identity take preference over bei...
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August 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The role of the "church" in the bombing of Nagasaki.
80 Years On: Hiroshima and Nagasaki — Human Again: Life in the Image of God share.google/yHNalONLfuTh...
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"Anytime we become concerned about national security but not human insecurity, when we are more preoccupied with civil law than natural law, when we emphasize sovereign rights but not human rights, and when we look at citizenship but not discipleship, we are worshipping idols."
July 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Anytime we become concerned about national security but not human insecurity, when we are more preoccupied with civil law than natural law, when we emphasize sovereign rights but not human rights, and when we look at citizenship but not discipleship, we are worshipping idols."
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We will believe the worst kind of myths about the people we’ve already decided not to love.
June 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
We will believe the worst kind of myths about the people we’ve already decided not to love.
My current reading.
Another great book from Miroslav Volf.
Another great book from Miroslav Volf.
May 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
My current reading.
Another great book from Miroslav Volf.
Another great book from Miroslav Volf.
Looking forward to getting into this book.
May 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Looking forward to getting into this book.
Birdsong in the morning is one of the great pleasures in life.
May 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Birdsong in the morning is one of the great pleasures in life.
The dusk of Maundy Thursday surrenders to the darkness of Good Friday. It will soon be dawn and the sun will rise, but for now it is good to sit in the darkness.
April 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The dusk of Maundy Thursday surrenders to the darkness of Good Friday. It will soon be dawn and the sun will rise, but for now it is good to sit in the darkness.
A few of you had been asking about my talk at the 4 Corners Festival back in February. Here it is.
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I'll Call You Home - Dana Masters - 9th February 2025 - St Colmcille's Church
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April 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A few of you had been asking about my talk at the 4 Corners Festival back in February. Here it is.
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In a word that so often feels like it's coming off the rails I frequently need to find space to breathe.
I find myself reading pieces from these books on a regular basis. They remind me to breathe.
Annie Dillard, "Beauty is real. I would never deny it; the appalling thing is that I forget it."
I find myself reading pieces from these books on a regular basis. They remind me to breathe.
Annie Dillard, "Beauty is real. I would never deny it; the appalling thing is that I forget it."
March 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
In a word that so often feels like it's coming off the rails I frequently need to find space to breathe.
I find myself reading pieces from these books on a regular basis. They remind me to breathe.
Annie Dillard, "Beauty is real. I would never deny it; the appalling thing is that I forget it."
I find myself reading pieces from these books on a regular basis. They remind me to breathe.
Annie Dillard, "Beauty is real. I would never deny it; the appalling thing is that I forget it."
Get them out of here! It's not just "illegal" immigrants, they're changing legal status to illegal. Potentially including 240k Ukrainians.
Refugees are some of the most vulnerable people on the planet. It takes a humane country to welcome and care for displaced people.
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Refugees are some of the most vulnerable people on the planet. It takes a humane country to welcome and care for displaced people.
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Trump revoking protections for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians and other migrants
Migrants who entered the US under the Biden-era programme will lose their temporary status next month.
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March 22, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Get them out of here! It's not just "illegal" immigrants, they're changing legal status to illegal. Potentially including 240k Ukrainians.
Refugees are some of the most vulnerable people on the planet. It takes a humane country to welcome and care for displaced people.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Refugees are some of the most vulnerable people on the planet. It takes a humane country to welcome and care for displaced people.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I'm tired of the world trying to tell me what efficiency looks like. Time to get back to God's ideas.
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March 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I'm tired of the world trying to tell me what efficiency looks like. Time to get back to God's ideas.
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Toward the end of his historical analysis of fascism in Europe, Robert O. Paxton muses on what an American-style fascism would look like. Writing in the early 2000s.
March 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Toward the end of his historical analysis of fascism in Europe, Robert O. Paxton muses on what an American-style fascism would look like. Writing in the early 2000s.
"The task of the totalitarian police is not to discover crimes, but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population."
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, p.462
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, p.462
March 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"The task of the totalitarian police is not to discover crimes, but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population."
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, p.462
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, p.462
"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. ... Mass leaders in power have one concern which overrules all utilitarian considerations: to make their predictions come true."
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism p.386
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism p.386
March 4, 2025 at 4:45 AM
"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. ... Mass leaders in power have one concern which overrules all utilitarian considerations: to make their predictions come true."
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism p.386
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism p.386