No time to blog this morning. Instead, read Whose death is acceptable for the sake of the economy?
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From the monthly archives:
September 2011
It has to be said. I like a gadget. So I’ve been giving occasional thought to getting myself one of Amazon’s Kindle devices. I’ve had a play with display models at the supermarket and been impressed. Mrs H likes the idea too, but although £150 might not be a fortune in the grand scheme of [...]
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Velveteen Rabbi wishes everyone a happy New Year and offers some ways we might celebrate.
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My scout group (1st Hope, Wrexham) have applied for a grant from NatWest Community Force. If successful, it will gain us £6000 for much-needed improvements to our headquarters. It seems that the decision is made by public vote, so I’m asking all my friends to vote for us on our project page. (Voting requires [...]
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From the Google Blog
Written between the third and first centuries BCE, the Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence. In 68 BCE, they were hidden in 11 caves in the Judean desert on the shores of the Dead Sea to protect them from the approaching Roman armies. They weren’t discovered again [...]
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Let us, with a gladsome mind,
Praise the Lord, for He is kind.
For His mercies aye endure, Ever faithful, ever sure.
Let us blaze His Name abroad,
For of gods He is the God.
He with all commanding might
Filled the new made world with light.
He hath, with a piteous eye,
Looked upon our misery.
He the golden tressèd sun
Caused all day [...]
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Barth’s Notes On Religion > “Good news for those who think there aren’t enough conflabs about how Islam is a threat to the values of USA…”
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David Keen reports the results of a survey undertaken by the Evangelical Alliance on social engagement by Christians
The research is based on a survey of 1151 people around Easter last year, and covers social involvement as well as spiritual practices. Some of the headline figures:
25% are trustees of a charity (10 times the national figure)
9% [...]
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“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would [...]
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Very true, but those who need to hear won’t be listening.
via Only in it for the Gold
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Dave Warnock asks “Is this the end for Mark Driscoll?”
Watch the video, and you can see why.
Dave describes Driscoll’s presentation as pornographic (you have been warned!), and I see no reason to argue. Clearly Pastor Driscoll needs prayer. And some serious conversation with a superior.
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Banksyboy says: things you see on a Christian bookstall that make you glad your phone has a camera: http://banksyboy.blogspot.com/2011/09/stages-of-faith.html
Posted via email from Richard Hall’s perfectly pointless blog
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Our friends at UM Portal raise the routine (mis-)quoting of Wesley by Methodists
It made for a great Tweet:
“Set yourself on fire with passion & people will come for miles to watch you burn—John Wesley.”
After megachurch pastor Craig Groeschel posted that saying on Twitter, more than 100 people passed it along by “re-tweeting.”
The only [...]
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Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,
be all else but naught to me, save that thou art;
be thou my best thought in the day and the night,
both waking and sleeping, thy presence my light.
Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word,
be thou ever with me, and I with thee Lord;
be thou my [...]
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Not quite satisfied with his last list, David Keen presents an (almost) all-women shortlist.
I’m filing this under “posts I wish I’d thought of”. Great stuff.
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