February 2012
14 posts
John Peel's Records To Be Put Online →
John Peel’s record collection, consisting of around 25,000 vinyl LPs, is to be put online in virtual form for an Arts Council project entitled The Space.
25,000 and they won’t find better than this.
I must be a homophobe, I just don’t feel like one
Within hours of the Coalition for Marriage petition going live online, Guardian journalist Grace Dent had outed the Bishop of Carlisle on Twitter as being a signatory and therefore a ‘homophobe’.
Interesting isn’t it? No debate, no nuance, no agreement to disagree. Oppose the changing of the definition of marriage and ipso facto you hate and fear gays.
Given that I agree with the beliefs of the...
Matthew Parris on the Patronisers of Faith →
Beware (I would say to believers) the patronage of unbelievers. They want your religion as a social institution, filleted of true faith. It is the atheists, who think this God business matters, who are on your side.
As an unbeliever my sympathies are with fundamentalists. They seem to me to represent the source, the roots, the essential energy of their faiths. They go back to basics. To those...
Evangelising the Kings way
Published originally in the February issue of The Treasury.
Think of your church building. Does it have a notice board? What message does it contain? With what does it compete?
Perhaps yours is a rural church with only a few houses around it; maybe its in a housing estate with only a pub and a newsagent to add colour to the rows of identical terraces.
Mount Pleasant is not like that. It’s...
10 Reasons to Believe in a Historical Adam →
Argue about a young earth or an old earth, debate six days or six “days” but reject the notion of a real Adam and I can’t really see that there’s much of Christianity left.
Mattel could finally release the Back To The... →
Mattel say,
This totally awesome 1:1 replica of the hover board from the BTTF 2 and BTTF 3 films includes multiple whooshing sounds and will glide over most surfaces”—except for water, unless you’ve got POWER. But also, everything else that is not water, because Mattel also notes that it “does not actually ‘hover’—check back in 2015 for that feature.
Which sounds a bit pointless but is still a...
BBC Music Showcase →
One of my new year resolutions was to get into classical music. This brilliantly presented site is helping me do just that.
(Though when I’m doing my Welsh homework I’m going here instead)
Why Dawkins will come to regret being right and...
Ho, ho, ho. Richard Dawkins doesn’t know the name of his own ‘sacred text’! Ha, ha,ha, Giles Fraser owned him live on the radio!! Epic Fail, Dawkins!!!
If you missed the Today programme on Tuesday, the recording of Dawkins V Fraser (after The Thriller in Manilla, The Imbroglio in the Studio, anyone?) is available all over the internet and the inevitable youtube clip is good for...
Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British... →
I got this for Christmas and just finished reading it. Pretty much agree with this review- if you’re looking for an answer to the question he claims to be posing you won’t be satisfied. However, if like me, you want an overview of Empire and to know the story behind the myths, (Khartoum, Eden, Mau Mau etc) it’s a readable and even handed account. Good stuff.
Footballer Ravel Morrison hammered for homophobic... →
Though going by his use of English, homophobia is the least of his worries.
Marriage Counselling: A review of Real Marriage
The following was published in the February edition of The Treasury.
Mark Driscoll may have passed you by but for young Christians he is big news. Flick through the downloads on your nephew’s iPhone and you’ll likely find a podcast from Mars Hill Seattle, Driscoll’s 7000+ member ‘mega church’. Access his video app and you may find a brilliantly produced recording of one Driscoll’s sermons...
Superbowl Sunday →
For those of you who want to know what all the fuss is about tomorrow.
And for those who couldn’t care less remember,
So, hate the game. But try to understand the players. Millions play high school football. 10,710 get Division I football scholarships. Only 90 will wear a uniform this Sunday. This is the culmination of endless games of catch with Dad in the backyard, of 6 AM wind sprints...
Guy Davies on last weeks EMW leaders conference →
Includes these tips from Stuart Olyott on being great,
Don’t arrive at church at the last moment and then leave quickly. Talk to people. Get to know them. Visit the sick. Open your home for meetings. Don’t neglect family life. Don’t often be absent from church. Know your Bible. Get to grips with theology. Pray for people. Don’t criticise them. Pray for your pastor and the...
Anakin and Luke could have learned something from... →
It’s odd, but the more I look at these, the more sentimental I get.