To have been a fly on the wall: Graham, Stott & Lewis in 1955
Have been thoroughly enjoying Roger Steer’s new bio of John Stott – very readable and engaging so far. There are lots of highlights, which i’ll possibly touch on when i review in time. But one moment just jumped out at me and sparked my imagination. Stott had been rector of All Souls since 1950 (which […]
Michael Card at ASLP: Suffering on the journey
It was a joy to have Michael Card at All Souls on Monday evening. I have to say that I don’t listen to a lot of (so-called) Christian music (and, incidentally, contrary to popular belief, I actually have listening tastes far beyond U2). But Card’s stuff is one of the very few exceptions to my […]
Provocative Child Soldiers Ad
HT: Ads of the World
This time, I’m with Dawkins
One of the RSS feeds I follow is from a provocative little site called irReligion.org – and they never fail to come up with the most irritating and wretched examples of religious people doing really stupid things. Occasionally the site unfairly lays into religious people doing pretty sensible and reasonable things – but that doesn’t […]
Stubborn Belief… in the great pumpkin…
HT to my friend Nancy Heeb for this gem
Some favourite African Musicians
Another list. Just felt the urge I suppose. In no particular order, here are some African musicians whose stuff I can’t get enough of (in no particular order). Not exhaustive, not exclusive, not definitive. Just for a laugh. Miriam Makeba (1932-2008) – South African – Mama Africa, lived much of her working life […]
Review of U2’s NLOTH: GRACE BREAKS INTO A SOUND
I posted a number of spots soon after the U2’s recent album, NO LINE ON THE HORIZON, came out. Then the opportunity to do a more formal review for Damaris’ CultureWatch came up, but it has taken a while – both a combination of time pressures and the fact that i needed to live with […]
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 13 (October 2009)
Sacred Treasure A friend of mine, who works running tours in Turkey, has set up this wonderful photo & graphic resource tracing Paul’s ministry in the region. Fantastic. Jason Ramasami has a nifty site going of cartoons he’s been doing over the last few years. He even decided to use something from a Q post […]
