Entries from January 2010
Dawkins’ God
Here’s a piece about the God Richard Dawkins believes in not believing in.
I don’t believe in Pat Robertson’s God either. But it’s odd, I think, that Dawkins is so insistent that everyone else must choose between believing or not believing in the same monstrous caricature. The fundamentalist account of God is monstrous, but it’s More...
secularists and God
Dave Walker in top cartoon form here
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Solas Festival – June 2010
news of a new festival in Scotland has been on the grapevine for some months. Now the Website has gone live.
I guess it’s a cousin of Greenbelt, but only laterally related, and it clearly has its own stamp. Lots of theatre, family-friendly, and there are blue skies on the website, so clearly good weather More...
Bill Gates vaccine donations
Yesterday it was reported that Steve Jobs brought the tablets down from the mountain.
Today Bill Gates hits the headlines with an announcement about his latest philanthropic project:
…the Microsoft founder and philanthropist, is to make the largest ever single charitable donation with a pledge of $10 billion (£6 billion) for vaccine work over the next More...
Giving it Up
It’s not long now till Lent. Have you got your Lent book yet? There is plenty of good stuff out there…
My Lent book for 2010 is called Giving it Up. It’s a book of 47 short chapters, so you can read one every day through Lent. This is the theme: most people associate Lent with More...
iPad iPitaph
it’s a bit soon for an epitaph… but Malcolm Guite wittily celebrates the iPad with an iPitaph, noting that as Steve Jobs “…brings the Tablets down from the mountain…” the whole affair is surrounded with religious language.
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don’t make your bed.
an affirmation of untidiness.
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do not please the lizard
…the lizard hates change and achievement and risk. The lizard is a physical part of your brain, the pre-historic lump near the brain stem that is responsible for fear and rage and reproductive drive. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because her lizard brain told her to.
Want to know why so many companies More...
iPad
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
dave walker at CartoonChurch. A picture paints a thousand words.
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tax breaks and marriage
from the Church Times:
THE ARRIVAL of marriage on the political stage this week, so early in the protracted General Election campaign, is a cause for alarm rather than satisfaction. The Church is, of course, a champion of marriage, having consistently upheld it as the natural crucible of human love and the best foundation for the More...
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
This title focuses on the importance of understanding who God is - and who he is not. It explores the core Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something.
This book compares and contrasts the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming. It is designed specifically for use in 2007, highlighting links to the Church calendar. It is intended for those wanting daily Bible readings for Advent.
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