Let Us Make
As horsemen fashion horses while they ride,
As climbers climb a peak because it is there,
As life can be confirmed even in suicide:
To make is such. Let us make. And set the weather fair.
From Autumn Sequel by Louis MacNeice
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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...
In an increasingly secularised society few people have a good working knowledge of the Bible. Yet a great deal of our culture is built on stories or ideas that come from the Bible. Literature, art, music, language and even the fabric of our society - such as our justice system - are built on Christian concepts and biblical references. The Writing on the Wall provides a fascinating introduction to the Bible's best-known, and most influential, stories. Each chapter gives some background to the text of the Bible, and shows how the stories have become enmeshed in Western culture. Adam and Eve, the ten plagues of Egypt, The Prodigal Son and Mary Magdalene all feature - along with how the Bible has influenced everyone from Shakespeare to Monty Python, and Caravaggio to Banksy. 
Giving It Up explores the Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something, and suggesting instead that what we need to give up is our existing ideas about God. With a daily readings for each day of Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, it follows the heroes of the Bible who had to give up their own too-small ideas about God.
This is Maggi’s bestselling book of daily readings for each day of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. Advent is the beginning of the Church year, and marks the anticipation of the coming Messiah. These readings explore how beginnings and endings in our own lives are illuminated by the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming.
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Congrats on your ranking Maggi, though with over 600,000 visitors to your blog so far you don’t really need to worry about it! Agree with you about Technorati and Alexa.
One very helpful thing about Twittergrader is that it can tell you who else is tweeting in your town/county, which in a little place like ours is great for catching up with other local tweeters. I guess in Cambridge there must be thousands.
Maggi
Grader is an attempt to work out the ‘impact’ that your tweets have. It does this by looking at factors like the number of followers you have, the number of followers they have, the number of ‘retweets’ you get, etc. You have lots of followers on Twitter, so I’m not surprised you sore well. All you need to do to take over from Bishop Alan on the top spot is to use it more!
Mouse
Really like the depth within the minimalism of words. Always helpful when we can say more with less!