Of Good and Evil - a personal view
This series, published in Reality in 2010, sets out to explain how I came to understand the problem of human fallibility in terms of our chronic uncertainty about our own value.
I Dealing with the Darkness
How and why,
as a teacher of history and current affairs, I came to a conclusion about the central human problem
in 1994 - our tendency to climb.
II The Human Problem
Why we tend to come unstuck - our chronic inability to value
ourselves as we are.
III Vanity and Humility
Wanting to
be 'the greatest' - a major source of conflict. And the one who
taught us to try to be the least.
IV Contagious Desire
How and why we 'catch' desires from others, and why we need to be aware of this problem.
V Abba
How Jesus reveals God's compassion for our deepest failing.