• A table of contents for the articles placed as pages on this site John Baxter.Org.  Just click on the highlights and you will go straight to the article. 
• Home
• About Me. A quick CV of yours truly.
• Art & Imaging. What makes an image a work of art.
• Buddha Way.  A fairly full treatment of the fundamentals of the tradition. 
  • Samsara Rebirth.  An article giving a personal view on the subject.
  • The Bowl. Its significance in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. 
• Ethical Issues. Mindfulness
  • Abortion. Do the Pro-Lifers Have A Point – even if they are wrong?
  • Abortion. The “Pro-Life” and Catholic Case Carefully Examined. A long and detailed paper.
  • Abortion. Who Suffers?  A much shorter paper facing the question “Is Abortion Murder.”
  • Mortality. A Time to Live and a Time to Die.  A careful examination of the case for Assisted Dying and of the Dementia Tsunami.
  • The Right to Choose a Safe, Painless Death. Revised version of the paper delivered to the ANVIL discussion group.
  • New Report on Fetal Pain June 2010 A medical report.
  • Sherborne Abbey Symposium on Assisted Dying. Report on a good conference.
  • The War on Drugs and Incarceration in America. A timely article from Time Magazine pointing out how the US has got things quite wrong.
  • Pope Benedict and Condoms – A Breakthrough?  A short article on an amazing statement.

Open Religious Education

RE and Fundamentalism. The Threat  A long article on the development and place of Open Religious Education in Schools based on 25 years of personal experience.

• RE Recommendations 2009  A paper givern to David Laws MP long before he became Minister for Schools in 2012.
• RE is Failing in Schools. Letter to the Minister for Schools.

• Poems. Most of these can also be listened to.
  • Eyton Road
  • Image Maker
  • Masters of the Universe
  • Rabbi Yeshua
  • This I See is Certain
  • What A Friend You Have
  • Window Shopping
  • Ilfracombe Harbour
  • Tornado
  • Woolacombe Beach
  • Fan Male for Cate Blanchett
  • Perhaps
  • Hospice Nurse
  • Three Really Good Servants of God
• Political
  • Emergency Volunteer Corps.  An idea put to Nick Clegg in 2009. Not taken up!
  • London’s Burning August 9 2011 A personal response.
  • Obama, Trump and Bin Laden.
  • Olympics Hurrah!  A critical approach to the Olympic Games.
  • Three Weeks in South Africa March 2010.  A careful article reflecting on post-apartheid SA
• Religion
•           Buddhism, Secular Transcendence and Humanism. 2013. A long and careful paper on how I moved from High Anglicanism to Buddhist Atheism. and the practice of Mindfulness.
  • Catholics Betrayed by Church Leadership. The horror of the sexual cover-ups
  • Christianity and Supernaturalism  A careful examination of the place of supernatural beliefs in Christianity and why they are incredible.
  • Clearing the Way for Rational Religion  A careful examination of the possibility of a rational post-supernaturalist, non theist religion.
  • Irish Catholics Rejecting Church Doctrine A report
  • PHYSICS AND SPIRITUALIY by Professor John Burton  A brilliant paper explaining where the sciences are leading us.
  • Pope Benedict Visits Britain. Blogs
  • The Gospels and Theistic Magic Realism. 2014. As a result of discussions with Jo Penberthy, vicar of Cucklington, I re-examine my thinking on supernaturalism and the historical Jesus and come up with a new way of categorising the Gospels TMR
• Take Heart  An account of my heart attack and it treatment in 2006
  • The CABG Patch  A report of what it was like to have a triple by-pass operation in Bristol in 2006.
• World Views.  An attempt in words and images to put across the key ideas.
  • A General View of Religion
  • Humanism
  • The Buddhist World View
  • The Liberal Christian World View
  • The Primal World View
  • The Medieval Catholic World View
  • The Protestant World View
  • The Modern World View
  • The General Supernaturalist World View

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