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Entries from November 2006

US Official burns out working against 21st Century Slavery

November 30th, 2006 · Comments Off

Here are some excerpts from a newspaper article on John Miller who has been working for the US Government in investigating human trafficking, some revealing insights into a poverty our culture is ignoring, Read the Full Story HERE, HT: Protest4 Miller, a former Republican congressman from Seattle, has traveled the world as [...]

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Tags: Justice

Church Planting: Where to use the money?

November 30th, 2006 · 6 Comments

CMS, no sorry not that famous missionary society but "Church Marketing Sucks" has released some results from a poll on church planting they ran. See Below  I voted on what Money?…but I suspect had that not been an option then staff probably would have been up there as it was [...]

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Tags: Church

Comment Moderation

November 29th, 2006 · Comments Off

Apologies to those who thought there comments weren’t coming up…I just found a default setting which turns all comments in for moderation. Its been switched off, please comment to your hearts content!

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Tags: Blogging

The contrasts of life at a University

November 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment

A couple of months ago University (or college for you thanksgiving crowd) began and I embarked on my now part time studies, a month or so in, its almost Christmas break is almost here, so I thought I might reflect on the changes in my academic life. UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN [...]

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Tags: My Life

Disability

November 27th, 2006 · 1 Comment

GOOD TO KNOW!Well I had promised myself that I would get on with some blogging over the weekend but then I woke up with a crazy pain in my foor at 4am on saturday (so much for a weekend lie in!) thinking I had broken a bone in my foot (the pain [...]

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Tags: My Life

The Second Post ever…

November 23rd, 2006 · 3 Comments

So I could have been a little more enthusiastic about blogging on my new spangley blog. Im not going to bore you with the details of all the uni work Ive been doing, or the busyness at work right now, but basically that is why theres been no action here so far, but [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Hat Tips · My Life

The First Post

November 17th, 2006 · 3 Comments

It had to happen some time, so here it is, in all of its err non glory, the first blog post on my new wordpress blog. The layout is definately not finished yet and I have back dated catergorised tha past 6 months of posts, but as you can see on the [...]

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Tags: Blogging

The Kooks, Musical tastes, Anger anyone?

November 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment

  I am becoming a bit of a fan for The Kooks, as a musician I want to see a little more in band than just staying in time with each other, what I enjoy about the Kooks other than imaginitive guitar playing, fun bass and brilliant drums is that they [...]

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Tags: Music

The Truth isnt Sexy

November 8th, 2006 · Comments Off

This is a campaign from Protest4, a Social Justice movement run by some Christians and as I read, while browsing Schotts Almanac 2007, That its the 200th Anniversary (1807)Parliament abolishing the slave trade. I thought I would give some space on the blog for this important organisation, The Truth Isn’t Sexy campaign has [...]

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Tags: Justice

Please Love Ted

November 8th, 2006 · Comments Off

I struggled with whether to say anything on the whole Ted Haggard thing, which is going so crazy on the blogs and news that I can call it such an undescriptive name as I have, for those of you this side of the pond who missed it get the news here. TallSkinnyKiwi has written the [...]

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Tags: Christian Living