It's Palm Sunday again already and time, maybe, for me to post something about my own take on the story of Jesus (or Yeshua). I find myself at times impatient in equal measure with uncritical believers who insist upon seeing history through the lens of theology, and with belief-debunkers who appear to have been schooled …
Author: Robert Crompton
I've worked in the chemical industry and in town planning; I've been a barman and a parson. But at heart I am a story-teller and am currently at work on my third novel.
An alternative nativity story for the run-up to Christmas
This is an excerpt from "The Gospel of Eleazar," which is I included in my book, "How to Write a Gospel." When Herod was King of Judea there were wise men living in Jerusalem, sons of the People of the Scattering, and sons of the sons of families who had remained in Babylon to tend …
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Pathways to Freedom
Well here I am, Folks, venturing into YouTube with a slide presentation (in two parts) of my Pathways to Freedom material. Please take a look and I hope you find it useful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw6E8GpTUlM&t=1346s
Revisiting the Design Argument
I have been thinking recently about the design argument for the existence of God and thinking that I might perhaps write something about it. This is just for starters, a setting out point in the the hope of gathering a little bit of feedback. The design argument is one which is so very easy to …
Pathways on Kindle
Pathways to Freedom is now available on Kindle. You can find it here on my Amazon page along with all my other books: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Crompton/e/B001HP9S8M/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1
Pathways to Freedom
Here it is, Pathways to Freedom, my newest book now available from Amazon. Pathways to Freedom follows on from the slide presentation which I gave at last summer's International Cultic Studies Association annual conference in Manchester. My topic then was Remote Control, an analysis of the ways in which people who leave the Watchtower movement …
Work in progress
My writing at present is almost all centred upon a paper which I am preparing to deliver at the annual conference of the Internation Cultic Studies Assoiation in Manchester this summer. It’s on the topic of “remote control” - about the ways in which high-control groups like the Jehovah’s Witnesses which micro-manage the lives of …
Here it is!
Here’s the listing at FeedARead for my book, How to Write a Gospel: https://www.feedaread.com/books/How-to-Write-a-Gospel-9781788763042.aspx
How to write a Gospel – introduction
My newest book will be coming soon. (It's here now) It's the shortest of all the books I've written, but it has taken me much longer than the others to complete. In a way it's been a work in progress for a lifetime. Well, without further comment, here is the draft of my introductory chapter …
