"We are well aware that the Law is spiritual: but I am a creature of flesh and blood sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand my own behaviour; I do not act as I mean to, but I do things that I hate. While I am acting as I do not want to, I still acknowledge the Law as good, so it is not myself acting, but the sin which lives in me." (Romans 7:14-19) Descended from the ancient Britons and currently living in London. I am a Catholic who once studied theology, and have retained an interest in biblical scholarship, Church history, philosophy of religion, as well as issues of real social justice. Like me, this blog is very much a work in progress, more prone to sin than holiness. As St Paul would have said, this blog, like all other passing vanities of this world, is "full of rubbish" (cf Phil 3:8). More than anything else, this blog is just a therapeutic hobby.