Author Archives: John Baxter

About John Baxter

John Baxter Teacher of Religious Education for 25 years and professional photographer for 16 years. Degrees from Rhodes (SA) Oxford and Bristol in Religion, Theology and the Philosophy of Education. Qualified as a Licentiate with the British Institute of Professional Photography. Interests Art, Photography, Religion and the issues it raises, Politics, Poetry, Writing.

BREAKING BOUNDARIES The video and book you must not miss.

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Please be ready to  copy and forward this on to your friends –  try and engage them in discussion. We can all get engaged in waking people up to how serious the situation is so they will accept and work for change.

At the instigation of the authors of THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE  (Figueres amd Rivett-Carnac. Summary attached) who organised a webinar I watched on Zoom, I have now watched and commend for you a quite exceptionally important video entitled:

                                          BREAKING BOUNDARIES
                                           The Science of Our Planet
and have bought and read  the excellent book with the same title. Continue reading →

ANVIL Covid 19, Inequality and the Relevance of Liberation Theology Wed. 12th May

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letter for general useJoining us via ZOOM from Durham we had as our main proposer Dr Sarah Pearce who is a retired medical consultant  currently working on a Graduate Diploma in Theology and Religious Studies at Durham. She gave what everyone found an excellent, clear and shocking paper based on the Marmot reports which analyses how Covid has laid bare the extent of poverty and inequality in Britain and how this has been getting worse. . Continue reading →

Responses to David Warden. JOHN BAXTER.

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The Search for JESUS YESHUA  

Reflections on David Warden’s paper for ANVIL April 2021   John Baxter 4-5-21

This essay, which has kept on expanding and being rewritten, is my reaction to David Warden’s carefully researched paper which argues that Jesus is no more an historical figure than Romulus or King Arthur.  It is restricted to considering that question and is not an attempt to write yet another version of the historical Jesus.  JESUS YESHUA

Please feel free to add your own comments to this discussion .  To do so email johnbaxte119@nullgmail.com 

A Resilience Service. A suggestion

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The aim of this paper is to encourage the setting up of a national resilience service to prepare for and deal with pandemics and climate change.

There will be no return to business as usual. Covid-19, flooding, drought, extreme weather, air and plastic pollution,  all threaten our lives, health, and work.  Covid has rudely woken us up to the fact that we face a radically different future from anything we have known, imagined or prepared for, despite the warnings scientists in many fields have been giving us for years. Continue reading →

ANVIL 14th April. David Warden leads on the HISTORICAL JESUS History or Myth

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ANVIL Associates and friends
This Wednesday 14th April 7pm Meeting on ZOOM we had our biggest turnout every, 35.  This included Dorset Humanists.
Our subject was “The Historical Jesus.” and we were very glad to have as our main speaker David Warden, Chair of Dorset Humanists.   Our first Responder was Alison Way, rector of Wincanton, followed by John Baxter.  Continue reading →

The Future we Choose     Surviving the Climate Crisis: Summary

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The Future we Choose     Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac  Feb 2020 (Amazon £9.54.)  I write this to encourage you to obtain and read this important book and to give you a useful summary of its contents.  It has a powerful and inspiring message, that there still is the possibility for us to build a fulfilling and sustainable future, and I do this for the sake of my grandchildren.  John Baxter 2021 The Future we Choose

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Revised for 17-3-21 The Right to Choose a Safe, Painless, Death

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For our ANVIL Zoom Session 7.pm. Wednesday.  For invitation email me.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER
The first version of this paper was written in Oct 2013 for ANVIL and is now much revised in this my eightieth year of March 2021. In it I put the case that it be recognised that everyone should be able to die painlessly (and safely) at a time of their own choosing as a basic human right and the law should be changed to facilitate this. Continue reading →