Dr. RJB Answers Your Believer Questions
Have a question you are struggling to get an answer to?
Elegiac Tributes
“Be loosed upon the grey silent waves, and leave me to rest” - What is the purpose of Melancholia in poetic versicles in the modern mood? Is it a positive?
One swallow
It appears from your articles here that someone has swallowed a Dictionary, am I totally mistaken?
Benedictus - gratias
Is there something finally that you would like to say to a dying pope?
Persecuted Royal Ladies?
Is there some substance in the recent assertion of one of the royals that she is the most persecuted royal lady in the history of royalty?
Laws as Objets d’Art
In Psalm 118, we read the expression, "How we love your laws O Lord", but my Q-anon is this - Are we really and honestly supposed to love something as nasty and negative as a Law? And is this really fair since in all personal honesty, just to be brutal and honest, I cannot see how something as negative and nasty as laws can be the object of any kind of religious charity or emotional love in any way. Am I being fair, or am I being very much mistaken? Riddle me this?
The Onset of Wars?
Is the onset of a large War really just something directly willed by God as per the popular Russian expression - tis the will of God, no opposition please; or is there some dark quality again directly willed by the Lord Lucifer about it all, or is it merely the fruit of human moral evil and base motivation like the pursuit of rocket designs in Kazakhstan or oil in the Ukraine; whichever the Dickens is it?
Christians & Wars
Why does our own western island society hold to the view that public and social Christians should do much to avoid the initiation of wars?
Rejections?
Even before Covid came along I was rejected by my local clergy and unable to be anointed when going in for some hospital procedures - is there any reason for this in reality, or was it just some ecclesiastical hatred towards people of my working-class area?
Geographics
Why do ecclesiastical boundaries follow state boundaries so nearly and dearly? Is there a reason for such blind guides leading blindly or whichever? Is it state provision that is the leader or is it church custom that is the leader? Which is it?
Yep, they can
Maybe you could elucidate how privacy rights work especially for the rich and famous, and even for the not so rich and famous?
Privacy Settings
Could you let me know how your parish details privacy settings in charity emails please, as I still do not quite understand how the whole privacy industry works since the Harry and Meghan right to privacy trials of 2021?
Hildegards of the World
What is your deanery or even parish opinion on the way that feminine mystics are often much suppressed, silenced, and side-lined by the church authorities in the local parishes and deaneries in the modern world – is there a reason why such young women are so systematically abused?
Stealing Beauty
What is the purpose of all those military honours and patronages and titles accorded to some prince or other, if all the top brass and the veterans are so quick to judge a super-criminalised man, criminalised so quickly and so hastily that not a word can be said in his defence sort of man, even before the poor duke has appeared in court to answer his accusers and Me-Too critiques?