An election to lose?
It seems that the Governor of the Bank of England has sized up the situation and found everything wanting. Which leaves me wondering why anyone would want to win this election. The situation in the next few years is going to be grim. So whoever wins will have to make cuts so sweeping, and therefore […]
The Undefended Life
I’m fascinated by new attempts at publishing and distributing media. And when it is done to spread good stuff, all the better. So it’s good to plug the blog of an old friend of mine, Simon Walker, with his Undefended Life blog. He’swritten a few books before – including the Undefended Leader series. But this […]
The First Easter Dawn
Am a very excited geek today as I’ve just discovered how to embed a Scribd document in WordPress. You can even click on the page numbers in the table of contents to get to relevant bits. Groovy. So here it is… the transcripts from the 3 Resurrection talks from this month. But now they are […]
The agony of the constant present and the power of music
I’ve enjoyed Oliver Sacks’ books before (especially his best, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat) and have got much out of Musicophilia. I wouldn’t say it was as good as some of the reviews made out – rather too bitty and uneven – but it is rescued by occasional flashes of his […]
Resurrection 3: Revolutionary Encounters in John 20-21
So here was 3rd and final resurrection narrative: Revolutionary encounters with the risen God (after previous 2) from John 20-21. As it’s a much bigger section, the table below is inevitably much more complicated – and also, it is as much an overview of the way I approached the talk (drawing out the 3 primary […]
Leaders’ Debate: Style and Substance – but is that really enough?
2 down, 1 to go. I can honestly say I don’t know who won last night’s UK Leaders’ debate. All 3 did ok, it seems to me. And as the pundits never tired of telling us, no one had a knock-out blow. I’m just not sure of the point of a knock-out blow… nor whether […]
Resurrection 2: Predictions fulfilled in Luke
Part two of the resurrection narratives series. Last week, Matthew 28, this week Luke 24. The talk was called The scriptures must be wonderfully fulfilled, and this is how it seems to pan out:
The 1st Leaders’ Debate in seconds
very funny – and not 100% unfair (HT PlayPolitical.com)
An Easter cryptic: the solution
Here is the solution for the crossword posted last week.
Thinking politics: some UK General Election suggestions
At last night’s ASLP prayer gathering, I did a little slot on the General Election. It seems to me that there are number of areas that should concern a responsible vote (by no means an exhaustive list and in no particular order): Justice and fairness Responsible borrowing and responsible prosperity Punishment of eviland wrong-doing Protecting […]
Resurrection 1: Bearing witness in Matthew
Started a fun little series – for 3 consecutive Sunday mornings, I’m taking each of the 3 primary Resurrection narratives as a whole. They each their own character and specific focus, despite the obvious overlap – and that is what I’m seeking to draw out. As far as I can tell at this stage, their […]
3 Men of Genius in the same place, at the same time: thoughts on “a fateful collusion”
Leonardo, Machiavelli, Borgia: these 3 men were, each in their own way, extraordinary. Genius is not too strong a word (though some might balk at the idea of Cesare Borgia being included – especially after what we learn in this book of him and his father Pope Alexander VI). What Strathern calls a ‘fateful collusion’ […]
